Your Political Compass orientation?

[GreenPartyVoter]

http://politicalcompass.org/

Does anyone want to "plot" DU? :)

Left/right: -7.5
Auth/Lib: -5.5

[stepnw1f]

1. Hey Freepers...Take the Test

You'll find yourself right up there with Hitler.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Maybe.. there might be a few libertarians as well.. but not many

[Extend a Hand]

3. economic: -5.24 social: -7.54

here is a link to an old thread where a bunch of folks posted too


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3575604

[deadparrot]

4. Mine:

Economic Left/Right: -4.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.87

[LSdemocrat]

5. Economic Left/Right: -3.63, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79

[Xipe Totec]

6. boy, I thought I was a centered person

I consider myself fiscal conservative, social progressive, yet...

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

And I'm left-handed to boot!

[Robbien]

11. In these times of unregulated monopolies

being fiscally conservative means we need more regulation not less. Its no wonder fiscally conservative ends up in the left sphere.

Mine also ended up negative -6.75

Social is -5.5

[Xipe Totec]

19. My Favorite Slogan:

Get regulators out of the bedroom, and back in the boardroom.

[julianer]

44. Velcome Komrade

[Xipe Totec]

47. Spacivo Balshoi!

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. My conservative evangelical hubby comes out

right on the cross hairs. Guess he is not as conservative as he would liek to think! *l*

[Ravenseye]

60. I've given the test to a number of relatives

voting libertarians, conservative republicans. Nobody has been more right than a positive 1.5 off center in either direction. The people who think they are conservative show up smack in the middle as supposed centrists, unlike the people they vote for.

The libertarian relatives found it interesting. The conservative republicans immediately derided it as being flawed and attacked the test itself.

*sigh*

[GreenPartyVoter]

66. Yep. That sounds about right. They desperately WANT to be extreme

far RWers. That's something they take pride in. And when shown that maybe it just ain't so, well.. that's a blow to their ego.

[etherealtruth]

8. Econ L/R -9.5, Soc. Lib/auth -7.08

[eallen]

9. I always come out -6 on lib/auth, +2 on economic left/right

I realize that differentiates me from many here.

[Endangered Specie]

20. Eh, everyone has unpopular opinions here.

Sounds like a libertarianish score :shrug:

[Carni]

10. I have no idea what my score even means

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

Someone want to explain this to me? lol

[Endangered Specie]

14. Well, negative numbers indicate

left

There are two areas of political opinion, social and economic issues, which each have left/right opinions.

On this scale Economic lefts are negative, with -10 being the extreme (communism) and +10 being the other extreme laissez faire capitalism(0 being moderate)

With the social scale, libertarian = left and authoritarian = right, with the extreme libertarian (-10) being anarchism) and extreme authoritarian being Fascism and dictatorships.

Within each measure, only consider the equivalent meaning of each "example" (like with economics, only consider the ECONOMIC issues of Communism, and with social issues, only consider the SOCIAL stances of Fascism).

[Carni]

26. Thanks-I went into brain fade mode

I am more left than I thought.

I thought I was a *moderate* but I guess not!

On edit:
I hold similar views to my parents and they were supposedly Republicans (the one that is living is left of me--so figure that one out) I guess this just shows how far to the right things have really swung!

[bigwillq]

12. Mine

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

[rndmprsn]

13. economic: -7 / social: -6.31

hmmmm...

[phoenixprogressive]

15. economic -7.13 social -7.13

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Welcome to DU :^)

[Dora]

58. Welcome!!!

Hot enough for you? :rofl:

Ah, the smell of Phoenix in the summertime....

[Horse with no Name]

16. Hmmmm as I move along I go further and further left,lol

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

[Endangered Specie]

17. My scores (a little more towards the center than last time):

Economic: -2.5
Social: -1.8

[Gay Green]

18. Done!

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

[jaxx]

21. Mine:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

[Ready4Change]

22. I'm a Nor-Easter! Sou-Westers bite!

A compass is a compass. :P

[kliljedahl]

23. Here's mine

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51

Whatever it means. Bookmarked to go back & see what it is supposed to mean.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Economic Left/Right: -9.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08

Sounds about right. I'm an Anarchist (AKA Libertarian Socialist - for the squeemish).

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. I would say that score jives with being an anarchist

[wli]

25. Economic Left/Right: -10, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -10

Weird, I wonder if I'm off the scale or something. I certainly wasn't trying.

ON EDIT: I usually think of myself as a centrist.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. Dang, you are even more of an anarchist than the anarchist in the post

above. :)

[wli]

33. but I'm not anarchist in the least

I believe the state plays an essential role in things and so on.

ON EDIT: I highly suspect usanian right-wing bias is coming into play here. I highly suspect I'd be close to the center or maybe just left of center relative to e.g. European standards.

[mixedview]

30. moderate/centrist libertarian

left/right: 0.13
auth/lib: -1.28

pretty accurate for me, since I am an independent and a moderate and a libertarian and have a mixture of views .. which are indeed coherent .. they come from weighing all sides of the argument and thinking about these issues in depth. There are no simple answers - we are all Americans.. our libertarian and democratic values are the unifying forces.. our debate is simply to the left and right and top and bottom of this center.. it is an ongoing process to define what we believe in as Americans.

[GliderGuider]

31. Solid Left-wing Libertarian: -7.5/-8.5

Power to the people, man!

[buckfush_in_2004]

32. I thought I would be more left.

Maybe I need remedial reading.
I do live in Texas.
Left/right: -6.5
Auth/Lib: -5.38

[GreenPartyVoter]

45. Welcome to DU :^)

[Dragonfli]

34. Sorry Guys- I'm hangin' a little too left & low (what does that mean?)

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

Does that make me unappealing?
Am I like Satan Or Something?

I thought I'd hit about middle.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

62. I like your numbers! The lower the left the better in my book!

:hi:

[Dragonfli]

82. Looks to me like we have a lot in common!

Your numbers are very close to mine. I love that smiley as well.
(permission to steal that little guy?)

:hi:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

85. we sure do!

:hug:

and go right ahead with that smiley....jimmyjazz showed it to me first, so she deserves the props, hehe

[davekriss]

35. -9.5/-9.5 (or thereabouts)

Been a while since I took it. Pretty much and ultra social libertarian (anarcho-syndicalist).

[Literate Tar Heel]

36. scores

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

[Sgent]

37. Pertty accurate for me

Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

That's a libertarian socially, with a moderate economic bent (economically, its about like Schroder).

[nookiemonster]

38. Well.....

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.95

[PeachyDem88]

39. I am a filthy pinko...

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08

Mmmmm... I love the smell of class warfare in the morning!

:D

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. Welcome to DU! *wave*

[BamaLefty]

40. My Results

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

Graph

[Behind the Aegis]

41. ok

Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.05

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. Question: all the freepers I have ever asked to take this test say

that it is skewed and that the questions are badly worded. They don't believe the results whatsoever.

Does anyone else feel this way?

[fhqwhgads]

46. the questions...

...aren't great. some of them are unclear or don't have enough differentiation. i found it difficult to answer the questions in a way that reflected my views, particularly the economic ones (e.g. "globalization should exist primarily to serve humanity rather than corporate interests" - i'm not really sure what they mean). perhaps i'm not particularly bright.

for the record, the quiz put me at -3.25E, -6.15S...hard to comment on its "accuracy".

[anarch]

54. I'd kinda have to agree

Not the best or clearest wording on a lot of them. I had to read several a couple times before I understood what the hell they were actually asking.

I got -9.25/-6.67, and I have to say I don't appreciate all this "negativity" towards the left :P

[GreenPartyVoter]

61. Yeah.,..the negativity is such a downer. *l*

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

48. Economic Left/Right: -9.38, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08

[JHB]

49. Left Libertarian... about what I expected

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

[DrGonzoLives]

50. Economic -5.75, Social -2.97

Compared to others here, I must be a Republican.

[GreenPartyVoter]

52. Hardly. *l*

[Democracy White]

80. I love your sig line!!!!

where did you get it?

Dee

[mrfrapp]

51. -8.00, -8.67

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67

[GreenPartyVoter]

53. Did you check out their grids with famous politicians and poltical people?

I asked them if they would plot the various talking heads who are influencing America, but no dice.

Maybe we could do that?

[tomg]

55. I'm sort of embarrassed.

I registered -9.13/ -8.77. I thought I was more moderate than that. Maybe I'm just particularly pissed at the right today.

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. Welcome to DU. No need to be embarassed. :^)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

63. haha! clearly you arent that moderate at all

and DONT be embarrassed! your numbers are good :yourock:

:hi:

[jpgray]

56. -8.75, -8.26

[Dora]

57. Farther left and south than I thought I was

Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15


Huh!

[Robbien]

64. Has anyone noticed many of us are out Ghandi-ing Ghandi?

He is further north and to the right from where many of us are sitting on the chart.

[Fiendish Thingy]

65. Economic -7.38; Social -5.38 n/t

[texanwitch]

67. Liberal and getting more eveyday. Lberal is not a dirty word.

:patriot:

[Ariana Celeste]

68. Left/Right: -8.63, Lib/Auth: -6.82

Economic Left/Right: -8.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82

[malachibk]

69. Economic Left/Right: -8.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18

Seems about right to me.

[sakabatou]

70. Mine

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64

[KarenInMA]

71. Economic Left/Right: -2.00, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41

sadly, I have no idea what that means :shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

77. Did you read the info that came up with your reading?

[leftofthedial]

72. WTF?

Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

[GreenPartyVoter]

76. Apparently you really are left of the dial. :^)

[leftofthedial]

78. I guess I'm not enough of a libertarian

[GreenPartyVoter]

79. You appear to be more of one than me. :^)

[in_cog_ni_to]

73. Man, I'm as far left as one can get. Economic L/R -10.00 Social L/A -7.79

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.79

[depakid]

74. -7.88, -7.18

Economic Left/Right: -7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18

Crikey! I think I may be a little more pragmtic than that.

Better than most quizzes, though.

[mikelewis]

75. Economic -4.75 Social -4.41

[Democracy White]

81. Whoa, I must really be on the left:

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77

Interesting

[sojourner]

83. hey! coolio!

I come out closer to Gandi, the Dalai Lama and Mandela...Economic Left/Right: -4.88; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79

[TahitiNut]

84. In July 2003, 180 DUers mapped their Political Compass orientation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=18357

[GreenPartyVoter]

86. I had forgotten about that. I wonder if our distribution had changed any