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Perhaps a better political quiz ... the political compass!
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| occrider |
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
I thought that a simple left to right line was inadequate in determining your political affiliation ... therefore, I found this political quiz test that plots your political stance on a cartesian coordiante system of sorts. At either rate, based upon these standards:
And these examples:
I scored:
Economic Left/Right:1.88
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92
Which is in the lower right quadrant somewhat close to center line. |
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| Yoepus |
Economic Left/Right: -0.12
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.97
I'm dead on the vertical line, and a bit facist.
This is one of the worst quizes of this type I've taken though, some of the questions are phrased ridicilously.
Plus wasn't Hitler more of a facist socialist, than a "neo-liberal". I mean thats what I was taught... I guess welfare and state owned industry doesn't make you much of a socialist these days anymore. |
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| Shakka |
As with all of these political quizes, I found several of the questions to be difficult to answer as many are unapplicalbe to me--plus if you feel neutral about something, it's hard to guage a degree of agreement/disagreement with an answer. Nonetheless, I scored:
Economic Left/Right: 2.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.49
Not sure what to make of that I guess, but not surprising nonetheless. |
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| Yoepus |
| hey i just realized I'm a moderate on this left-right scale :) awesome, take that you who thought i was a radical-right-wing-evil-zionist-occupying-mustardeer! |
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| DrUg_Tit0 |
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05
Yeah, I'm a total commie. Slava soyuzu sovietskih socialisticheskih respublik, or something like that :)
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
hey i just realized I'm a moderate on this left-right scale awesome, take that you who thought i was a radical-right-wing-evil-zionist-occupying-mustardeer! |
Nah, you're just a zionist fascist. :) |
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| Shakka |
| Now your avatar frightens me that much more!!!;) :D |
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| DaveSaenz |
I too was displeased with the other poll, and thus didn't post my score because I felt it didn't represent who I am.
| quote: | Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82 |
Right next to the coordinates of Gandhi and Mandela...
Not surprisingly, they are two of my heroes. :) I think what put me so far left was all the sex-based questions on the last page. I 'strongly agree' that the government should stay out of the bedroom, and the more 'strongly' you agree or disagree with a question, the more extreme your placement on the X/Y axes. This also explains why I agree with libertarians on social issues and personal freedom issues, but not always on economic ones (because of my strong beliefs on human rights). I absolutely despise extreme authoritarianism, so I'd say this "compass" is quite accurate!
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| anuneventrade |
Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92
*shrugs* Why do these things never seem right? :conf: |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by anuneventrade
Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92
*shrugs* Why do these things never seem right? :conf: |
Perhaps because we always idealize ourselves as being part of a specific camp yet when it comes to our opinions on actual issues, our answers are not in line with the mainstream beliefs of those camps?
Or perhaps the quiz needs more questions ... |
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| biznology |
didnt we already do this quiz on this forum?
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05
thats where i am at. i feel this was more representative of where i am, but at the same time there were still laughably bad questions on here| |
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| anuneventrade |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Perhaps because we always idealize ourselves as being part of a specific camp yet when it comes to our opinions on actual issues, our answers are not in line with the mainstream beliefs of those camps?
Or perhaps the quiz needs more questions ... |
Some of the questions were ridiculous. More questions were definetely needed.
To pick out my "Political Compass" with only maybe 40 or 50 questions is absurd. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
Plus wasn't Hitler more of a facist socialist, than a "neo-liberal". I mean thats what I was taught... I guess welfare and state owned industry doesn't make you much of a socialist these days anymore. |
From the FAQ of the website:
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Why is Hitler slightly right ? The Nazis were socialists, so they weren't fascists either.
Let's start with the second part first. Some respondents confuse Nazism, a political party platform, with fascism, which is a particular structure of government. Fascism legally sanctions the persecution of a particular group within the country - political, ethnic, religious - whatever. So within Nazism there are elements of fascism, as well as militarism, capitalism, socialism etc. To tar all socialists with the national socialist brush is as absurd as citing Bill Gates and Augusto Pinochet in the same breath as examples of free market capitalism.
Economically, Hitler was well to the right of Stalin. Post-war investigations led to a number of revelations about the cosy relationship between German corporations and the Reich. No such scandals subsequently surfaced in Russia, because Stalin had totally squashed the private sector. By contrast, once in power, the Nazis achieved rearmament through deficit spending. One of our respondents has correctly pointed out that they actively discouraged demand increases because they wanted infrastructure investment. Under the Reich, corporations were largely left to govern themselves, with the incentive that if they kept prices under control, they would be rewarded with government contracts. Hardly a socialist economic agenda !
We wonder if respondents who insist on uncritically accepting the Nazis' self-definition of 'socialist' would be quite as eager to believe that the German Democratic Republic was democratic.
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