Where do you fall in the political spectrum?

I thought this was an interesting survey/analysis:



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Have to say it plotted me more to the left and more authoritarian than I thought. Just a couple of notches on the right/libertarian quadrant.



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I think what pushed me towards the middle was my response to absolute questions where the words "always" and "never" were used.

Snoscythe Thanks for posting that very interesting.

Interesting. I was also kind of put off by the questions being so absolute. In the end I ended up a bit more right of you and a bit more libertarian.

I ended up the same exact place as Sno.I also thought I would have ended up a little differnt.

I'm about as libertarian as Sno, but I'm much further right.

So I'm an economic righty but clearly balanced btw libertarian and authoritarian.
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I think one oversight in the metric is Constitutional conservatism--none of the questions really seemed to plumb those depths. Given the nature of the questions, I can see why it would put me close to the middle. "Abortions should only be allowed when the life of the mother is at risk." Well, while I believe that the life of the mother should be one exception, I also believe that rape, incest, etc. are exceptions to a general prohibition of abortion. So I had to put "Disagree" on that one. If Westboro Baptist Church is the right end of the spectrum on conservatism, I'd have to say I'm closer to the middle.



The "conservative" questions seemed to be probing for social, economic, and foreign policy conservatives, where I can see myself closer to the middle. On the untouched constitutional conservative, I'm way off to the right, but that isn't reflected in this.

SpiffCoug wrote:
So I'm an economic righty but clearly balanced btw libertarian and authoritarian.
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This is almost exactly where I fall almost every time I take one of these.

Mars wrote:


I consider myself a hardcore conservative.



The graph put me on the left side.

Me too! I was in the lower left quadrant.



Clearly their questions are not asking what they think that they're asking

Right in the middle of the purple on the bottom right.



Sounds about right, although some ?s were rather dubious.



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This survey must be wrong! Although it shows me safely on the right (where I belong), it shows me more authoritarian than libertarian. Now I'm psychologically conflicted. Aarghh!

I was not really surprised. I ended up at 6.25 to the right and 2.41 below the median into the libertarian purple. I tried to philosophize what the absolute qualifiers meant to me. I often had to disagree because of the absolutes. However, if I thought the statement could be viable without the absolute, then I would merely disagree, and not strongly disagree.



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My Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: 4.63

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.67





Midway between center and the right and very slightly libertarian vs authoritarian.

Two aspects of this survey are questionable .



#1: You apparently get lefty/lib points for being fair about human races. I think that is why some of you scored more leftward than you expected. I expect that none of us are racists, and that we would have been 20 or 30 percentage points farther right if we had agreed that "different races should keep to themselves, and that our own race is far superior."



Logically, and realistically, racism exists just as much on the "left" as on the "right." The actual difference is, that the "left" has long made political capital for their side by ACCUSING the "right" of racism and bigotry.



#2: I did not appreciate the stealthy invitation to agree with the Marxist maxim: "From every man according to his ability, to every man according to his needs." This is a euphemism for communism that sounds far more noble than what it actually represents. It was clever of them to slip that into the mix without its political label. Notice that The Marxists left out the terms, "dreams, wishes, wants, incentives." The latter terms are elsewhere regularly demonized by Marxists and replaced with the words, "decadence, and greed." Then you are left with only your "needs," which they would like to determine for you and ration to you.



So everyone who took this survey can adjust their score by 2 or 3 points out of ten toward the right (unless, of course, if you happened to have answered affirmatively to #1, and negatively to #2.



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