Where is your political compass?

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  • wolfi622
    wolfi622 Posts: 206
    Technically Libertarian means socially more left and economically more right (just shrink the size of the government, period, not just being more open about things.), so I don't know what the creators of the test were thinking there. That said, it was a pretty good test, I could argue with some of the wording on some of the questions because it was quite obviously written by someone from a specific political standpoint (and will lead people without a strong viewpoint in that direction), but it gave me the result that I identify as.

    I'm from the US too and because of ^^ this I believe the test is trash because to me that was at least 1/2 the questions that were leading and giving half informations that would make anyone picking the obveously 'wrong' choice to be a heartless close minded idiot.

    I don't need a quiz, I'm a liberatarian.

    Not a Libertarian, but I agree with your assessment of the survey. Very leading.
  • microwoman999
    microwoman999 Posts: 545 Member
    Economic Left/ Right: -2.25
    Social libertarian/ Authoritarian: -1.03

    USA

    I figured I would be somewhere over there but it was still fun to do :)
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    I have done many of these, and I am more Libertarian than anything.

    Personally, I like the isidewith.com test better.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I am 100% libertarian and have been since I was in high school. I can not imagine myself ever initiating force against another person.
    "Golden rule"
    "to each his own"
    "live and let live"

    EDIT: Oh, and I'm in the United States, where libertarians are spurned and made fun of. I'm used to it.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Technically Libertarian means socially more left and economically more right (just shrink the size of the government, period, not just being more open about things.), so I don't know what the creators of the test were thinking there. That said, it was a pretty good test, I could argue with some of the wording on some of the questions because it was quite obviously written by someone from a specific political standpoint (and will lead people without a strong viewpoint in that direction), but it gave me the result that I identify as.

    I'm from the US too and because of ^^ this I believe the test is trash because to me that was at least 1/2 the questions that were leading and giving half informations that would make anyone picking the obveously 'wrong' choice to be a heartless close minded idiot.

    I don't need a quiz, I'm a liberatarian.

    I didn't take the quiz either. I already know.

    Having said that, being a libertarian *actually* means that you do not believe in initiating force against others, that you advocate individual liberty.

    Google "non-aggression principle" =D
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    Technically Libertarian means socially more left and economically more right (just shrink the size of the government, period, not just being more open about things.), so I don't know what the creators of the test were thinking there. That said, it was a pretty good test, I could argue with some of the wording on some of the questions because it was quite obviously written by someone from a specific political standpoint (and will lead people without a strong viewpoint in that direction), but it gave me the result that I identify as.

    I'm from the US too and because of ^^ this I believe the test is trash because to me that was at least 1/2 the questions that were leading and giving half informations that would make anyone picking the obveously 'wrong' choice to be a heartless close minded idiot.

    I don't need a quiz, I'm a liberatarian.

    I didn't take the quiz either. I already know.

    Having said that, being a libertarian *actually* means that you do not believe in initiating force against others, that you advocate individual liberty.

    Google "non-aggression principle" =D

    yeah... it confuses me when the compass essentially lumps libertarians and authoritarians as almost the same... um, no they are like oil and water... not even close.

    Personally, myself.... I'm not quite to the point of "open borders" type of libertarian... but I don't believe the government should be restricting people from doing things they want to do (aside from murder and stealing) as long as it doesn't negatively affect someone elses right to live how they want to.
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
    From England

    Your political compass

    Economic Left/Right: -5.25
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64

    pcgraphpng.php?ec=-5.25&soc=-3.64

    I'm the same pretty much as the Dalai Lama


    That's where I am. I'm from the US. Northern CA.
  • Lone_Wolf70
    Lone_Wolf70 Posts: 2,820 Member
    Alot of the questions were ridiculous and very leading

    I rated a economic L/R 4.25 & Soc lib/Auth a 0.62

    Personally i consider myself a conservative libertarian
  • Lone_Wolf70
    Lone_Wolf70 Posts: 2,820 Member
    I have done many of these, and I am more Libertarian than anything.

    Personally, I like the isidewith.com test better.

    This test is WAY better...my scores put me withron Paul 97%, but I would nvr vote for him becuz he is nuts on foreigh lolicy and has funny eyebrows
  • Daisy_Cutter
    Daisy_Cutter Posts: 774
    Pretty much a Conservative Libertarian


    Your political compass
    Economic Left/Right: 5.12
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.46
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    Economic Left/Right: -1.25
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.38
  • RhythmGypsi
    RhythmGypsi Posts: 79 Member
    Hi, there!

    Economic Left/Right: -6.00
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

    I live in the Midwest in the U.S., but I was born and raised in New England :)


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  • WhitneyAnnabelle
    WhitneyAnnabelle Posts: 724 Member
    Economic Left/Right: -7.38
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28

    The anthropologist in me got excited at some of those questions, hahaha.

    Oh, and I'm from Maine.
  • WhitneyAnnabelle
    WhitneyAnnabelle Posts: 724 Member
    I have done many of these, and I am more Libertarian than anything.

    Personally, I like the isidewith.com test better.

    This test is WAY better...my scores put me withron Paul 97%, but I would nvr vote for him becuz he is nuts on foreigh lolicy and has funny eyebrows

    This made me laugh a lot. Not in a condescending way...I just liked it
  • KaleidoscopeEyes1056
    KaleidoscopeEyes1056 Posts: 2,996 Member
    Economic Left/Right: -6.88
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31

    I'm to the left of and below Ghandi. I guess that makes me a Liberal Libertarian. Sounds good. And, I'm from 'Merrrica.
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    Economic Left/Right: -4.00
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.51
    WOOT! Im like Gandhi :-D
    And the Dali Lama and Nelson Mandela, cool!

    From San Diego, California (USA) but currently living in St. Louis, Missouri

    You're about where I am on it. And I'm stuck in the rightwing south, too. I feel like an alien. :grumble:
  • natalie412
    natalie412 Posts: 1,039 Member
    Alot of the questions were ridiculous and very leading

    I rated a economic L/R 4.25 & Soc lib/Auth a 0.62

    Personally i consider myself a conservative libertarian

    Hey your similar to me:

    Economic Left/Right: 4.62
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.33

    But I agree the statements were ridiculously simplistic and leading. Yes, I believe multinational corps should rape the 3rd world countries... Duhhhhh.
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
    Economic Left/Right: 1.25
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.05


    Neo-liberal Anarchist, yee haw! (United States)
  • Bobby_Clerici
    Bobby_Clerici Posts: 1,828 Member
    The political compass was interesting but not relevant to how I vote.
    First, I never vote my political compass but which person can get done what I need doing.
    I do not much care what any politician believes or stands for so long as he or she is a friend or a friend of a friend.
    Save the whales! Who cares?
    Help the poor! Who cares?
    Global Warming! Who cares?
    Help Bobby Clerici? :drinker: -- Yes, we can!
  • future_runner
    future_runner Posts: 136 Member
    Economic Left/Right: -6.00
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31

    Like Ghandi. I'm American, Southern born and bred to be more specific.
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,283 Member
    That was interesting....

    USA

    Economic Left/Right: -4.12
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.41

    I am a little right of Gandhi....nice to know.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    My political compass points directly at "I don't care." I know that isn't where it should be, but ugh...I just feel like it's all a futile attempt anyway.
  • PuggleLover
    PuggleLover Posts: 261 Member
    Those questions were biased... lame test but still fun.
    Libertarian - Friedman.
  • lizzybethclaire
    lizzybethclaire Posts: 849 Member
    Economic Left/Right: -5.38
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.41

    I lean more to the left than I thought.
  • future_runner
    future_runner Posts: 136 Member
    Technically Libertarian means socially more left and economically more right (just shrink the size of the government, period, not just being more open about things.), so I don't know what the creators of the test were thinking there. That said, it was a pretty good test, I could argue with some of the wording on some of the questions because it was quite obviously written by someone from a specific political standpoint (and will lead people without a strong viewpoint in that direction), but it gave me the result that I identify as.

    I'm from the US too and because of ^^ this I believe the test is trash because to me that was at least 1/2 the questions that were leading and giving half informations that would make anyone picking the obveously 'wrong' choice to be a heartless close minded idiot.

    I don't need a quiz, I'm a liberatarian.

    I didn't take the quiz either. I already know.

    Having said that, being a libertarian *actually* means that you do not believe in initiating force against others, that you advocate individual liberty.

    Google "non-aggression principle" =D

    yeah... it confuses me when the compass essentially lumps libertarians and authoritarians as almost the same... um, no they are like oil and water... not even close.

    Personally, myself.... I'm not quite to the point of "open borders" type of libertarian... but I don't believe the government should be restricting people from doing things they want to do (aside from murder and stealing) as long as it doesn't negatively affect someone elses right to live how they want to.

    It actually puts authoritarian and libertarian as opposites.
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
    Economic Left/Right: -7.38
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

    Apparently, I'm left-er than Ghandi and the Dalai Lama!
  • future_runner
    future_runner Posts: 136 Member
    My problem with a test like this is it asked how I feel about things on a personal level, but that doesn't necessarily translate to how I think things should be run from a legal stand point. For example- do I think with severe, inheritable disabilities should reproduce? No. Do I think our government should tell them they cant? Absolutely not.
  • Rhea30
    Rhea30 Posts: 625 Member
    Your political compass
    Economic Left/Right: -4.88
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36
  • MrDel
    MrDel Posts: 33
    Hanging with Ghandi!

    Economic Left/Right: -5.25
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

    USA
  • JBankey
    JBankey Posts: 19 Member
    From the US

    Economic Left/Right: 2.62
    Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.13
    More like Freidman

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