Where do you fit on the political compass?

[Restless]

Take the test to see where you fit.

I was not surprised to find that I'm slightly to the left economically and trending to libertarian socially.

I'm close to the centre on both axis.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

 

[CJ Tylers]

Apparently, I'm somewhere between Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. :|

 

[athaire]

Economic Left/Right: -1.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82

 

[exploringsub]

Economic .25
Libertarian/ Authoritarian -1.18

pretty close to the centre overall

 

[whoisjohngalt]

No big surprise here

 

[HankQuinlan]

More left/libertarian than Nelson Mandela, apparently. I guess I don't mind being in exactly the opposite square from George W Bush.

 

[chilli]

What always amazes me is (generally) the hypocracy of "conservatives"

They say they want less government in people's lives (free markets - without regulations) yet their "authoritarian" thinking that the state should be able to determine a woman's right to choose...

Always baffled me.

 

[Karl Blues]

Great post! Here is what I got:

Slightly left-leaning libertarian -

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92

 

[aznboi9]

Hmmm, I'm more of a lefty than I thought. I'm going to go outside and give a tree a hug now.

 

[hang5507]

The Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38

Regards

H

Nelson and the Dalai Lama are my brothers lol

 

[pitap]

This was a fun little test. I lined up right over the Dalai Lama.
I would change my board handle in his honour but I have a suspicion that it would be sacrilegious!
Plus I would loose my whopping 6 post count.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

as i thought - a bit to the right of genghis khan... lol

no
economics: 3.25 right
social: 0.26 authoritarian

the second number sirprised me, i thought i was a regular ole redneck but i barely broke off the centre line. holy fuck! some of those people are WAAAAY out there

 

[HankQuinlan]

Because there were so many questions, I thought it might be interesting to take it again, a little more slowly, and be more careful in picking my "strongly"s. Nope, almost the same result - up half a square, and half a square to the left.

I was also trying to look carefully for bias in the questions, but couldn't find them...an interesting website.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

i thought some of the questions didn't really present an answer that reflected my choice. probably they were the ones that really guaged my position the best

 

[HankQuinlan]

i thought some of the questions didn't really present an answer that reflected my choice. probably they were the ones that really guaged my position the best

I think the questions were pretty fair generally; each proposition was pretty much something you can agree or disagree with -- or at least lean more towards one than the other -- this helps form a general profile of opinion/belief. An "i don't know/don't care" option would be less revealing.

 

[Restless]

I'm betting that the vast majority of Canadians land in the lower left quadrant.