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I’m not surprised on a forum like this to find that most tend towards libertarian. However I am not sure why so many are left of centre. 

The result I got was not quite what i expected. I am not as right wing as i had expected, and also I had expected to be further toward the libertarian end of the scale. I had expected to be in the extreme bottom right-hand corner.

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5 hours ago, WetDave said:

I’m not surprised on a forum like this to find that most tend towards libertarian. However I am not sure why so many are left of centre. 

The result I got was not quite what i expected. I am not as right wing as i had expected, and also I had expected to be further toward the libertarian end of the scale. I had expected to be in the extreme bottom right-hand corner.

 

I mean, I could probably explain in greater detail, but that's not in the purview of the thread.

... Political shitposting/memes aren't either, sadly ;A;

 

If you want an explanation of why I think most of the folks so far seem to lean left, PM me and we can chat about it.

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It's close enough, though I've never much liked the questions on this particular quiz. It's kind of annoying having to answer a question if you disagree with the entire premise of it. Many of the questions are also a bit vague, "misleading the public" could mean several things. Seeing as how you have to agree/disagree with everything on the quiz, it doesn't seem like a good idea to include questions that could have an entirely different meaning from person to person.

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There are many problems with the political compass compared to more thorough tests, and it seems especially Ameri-centric in a lot of questions.

However, the question is not geared towards a stereotype of US Republicans, but more as a way to measure whether feelings of racial superiority are a considerable part of the test-taker's views. For example, a white supremacist would select 'Strongly Agree' if they were answering honestly.

The breadth of mainstream political opinions in the USA is not very wide, all told, due to the two-party system and heavy control of media between those two poles, with any dissenting opinions disparaged by one or both sides of this duopoly.

In the end, @[X] Doubt, I think that the test is worth taking in its entirety to see whether your opinions line up where you expect them to, or if you're an outlier among what you consider your political affiliation.

As a side note, it might surprise you to hear that almost all of the US Presidents within the last fifty years or so have been confined to the upper half (authoritarian-leaning) of the right quadrant (Center-Right to Moderate-Right), regardless of their own party. the Democrats, for example, who are considered to be 'left wing' are by almost every single metric used by the rest of the world, a dominantly right-wing party. Hell, 'Liberal' in US political discussion makes no sense elsewhere. To the rest of the world, the Republican Party is a Liberal party. (IE, not monarchist, not socialist by a country mile, not fascist.)

 

...Communists, for example, would call all politicians within your two major parties Liberal, and historically speaking, they are correct.

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Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.49

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I would put myself on the economic center line, but as others have pointed out, the fact that you have to agree or disagree to each statement exactly as it is written tends to skew the picture. I thinks it skews it to the left, because even the most convinved capitalist cannot, in good conscience, argue that the only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders, or that what’s good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us. Those claims are kind of... drastic. 🤔

The social coordinate is dead on, though.

 

8values

 

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https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=61.0&d=59.0&g=74.6&s=82.1

Hmm... oh well. So I'm a socialist by some measure. Fine, whatever. The rest is spot on. ☺️

 

 

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I don't like that test much, mostly because a lot of the questions oversimplify most issues.

Personally I feel like my beliefs align much more libertarian than this, but I guess it's just an online quiz and doesn't matter all that much.

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EDIT: Went and did the 8axis one too. Results were more what I expected, a more Reaganistic result.

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