What's your Political Compass?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 22:21
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I thought it might be interesting for us to take this test and report on the results:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/test
I hit almost dead center, a tiny degree into the Athoritarian Left quadrant.
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Are folk here afraid of a little 6 page multiple choice quiz? 
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I'm a tad more to the left but quite a bit more libertarian than Ghandi.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine The American Crisis
OONJERAH - We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
"You, who live in any kind of comfort or convenience, do not know how these people can survive these things, do you? They will endure because there is no immediate escape from endurance. Some will die, the rest must live."
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I came out almost dead center of the Left-Libertarian square. By Kiki's scale above, a bit more libertarian than Ghandi.
I dunno when you put this up, but I was here just before 6am, before our run, and just popped in now, 10:00. I think four hours is a pretty short time to start judging whether people are afraid of anything or not.
ETA: I found a good bit of the questions awfully obvious, and there was no option but "agree" and "disagree", which made the whole thing far too simplistic for my taste.
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I found the questions pretty obvious, and some I thought didn't match my views at all, leading to no good choices for me:
Possessing marijuana for personal use should not be a criminal offence.
Studies have shown marijuana has significant and long-term effects on the young brain. A more recent study showed significant STRUCTURAL brain differences in young people among those who casually used marijuana (as few as 1 joint/ week, average 11 joints/ week), directly correlating extent of structural abnormalities with usage. Given the evidence, I think that people who SUPPLY marijuana to YOUNGSTERS should be subject to criminal charges.
People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.
People with serious inheritable disabilities should be STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to not reproduce.
When you are troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.
When you are troubled, it's good to consider the causes of your trouble, and to take action to remedy them.
First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.
What does this mean, exactly? First generation immigrants will never be exactly like third generation native born people, but they often do embrace and enthusiastically adopt the new country.
A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
How can you have a democratic system if you don't have a choice? And if you don't have a choice of party, do you have a choice of policy?
These days openness about sex has gone too far.
I'm all for openness and honesty, but public foreplay goes too far IMHO, and commercialization of sex is rampant and shouldn't be allowed.
And just out of curiosity I answered all questions 'strongly agree', which landed dead center of the left-right spectrum, but halfway up the authoritarian scale.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine The American Crisis
OONJERAH - We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
"You, who live in any kind of comfort or convenience, do not know how these people can survive these things, do you? They will endure because there is no immediate escape from endurance. Some will die, the rest must live."
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Yup, some of those are the ones I had problems with, too...when your only choices are "yes"/"no", it's not an accurate measure of the person's opinions.Quote:
And just out of curiosity I answered all questions 'strongly agree', which landed dead center of the left-right spectrum, but halfway up the authoritarian scale.
That's interesting...and says a lot about the test itself. I don't put much stock in these things, for both the above reasons.
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Quote:Hmmmm, that indicates a bias to the test IMO. But it didn't pretend to be scientifically accurate & reliable or anything. Just for fun, I conjure.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
And just out of curiosity I answered all questions 'strongly agree', which landed dead center of the left-right spectrum, but halfway up the authoritarian scale.
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I'm about 60% down and 30% right in the Libertarian Right quadrant.
ETA: I note that on similar tests, I've ended up in the Libertarian/Left quadrant. Guess it depends on the mood of the day and how the designers score your answers.
As others have noted, some of the questions aren't really amenable to a "Like/Dislike" type of answer for me.
Looking down at the bottom of the Results page, there's a chart for international figures. Interestingly enough, both Pres. Obama and Mitt Romney end up pretty deep in the Authoritarian Right quadrant, with Romney only 10% more Right and 15% more Authoritarian than Obama.
"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."
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Quote:Sounds about right.
Originally posted by Geezer:
Interestingly enough, both Pres. Obama and Mitt Romney end up pretty deep in the Authoritarian Right quadrant, with Romney only 10% more Right and 15% more Authoritarian than Obama.
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Which is why I consider Obama the lesser of two evils. I trust this wasn't a sideways comment on the supposed Obama worship we have.
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Originally posted by Geezer:
Looking down at the bottom of the Results page, there's a chart for international figures. Interestingly enough, both Pres. Obama and Mitt Romney end up pretty deep in the Authoritarian Right quadrant, with Romney only 10% more Right and 15% more Authoritarian than Obama.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine The American Crisis
OONJERAH - We are too dumb to live and smart enough to wipe ourselves out.
"You, who live in any kind of comfort or convenience, do not know how these people can survive these things, do you? They will endure because there is no immediate escape from endurance. Some will die, the rest must live."
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