Still there, but teetering on the edge.Have you in actual fact left the square completely?
I dare not fall off.
There be dragons below!
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Still there, but teetering on the edge.Have you in actual fact left the square completely?
Political compass disagrees.I think Thatcher was in the purple quadrant - she was an economic liberal and did not devote much time to trying to impose morality on the nation, as I recall.
These are good questions, but too broad for me. It would take me a long tome to try and answer them honestly, and clearly.How do you see the relationship / interaction / influence of your beliefs (religious or otherwise) with your politics?
Pehaps they are in separate boxes? Perhaps one flows from the other? Perhaps they are expressions of the same "thing"?
I think my political beliefs flow from compassion.How do you see the relationship / interaction / influence of your beliefs (religious or otherwise) with your politics?
Pehaps they are in separate boxes? Perhaps one flows from the other? Perhaps they are expressions of the same "thing"?
I'll start a thread on it then.These are good questions, but too broad for me. It would take me a long tome to try and answer them honestly, and clearly.
Yes I know. However I take issue with Political Compass in a number of ways. I did their test and came out in the bottom left quadrant, where nobody in Europe who knows me would place me.
How do you see the relationship / interaction / influence of your beliefs (religious or otherwise) with your politics?
Pehaps they are in separate boxes? Perhaps one flows from the other? Perhaps they are expressions of the same "thing"?
You shan't disagree with Political Compass.Yes I know. However I take issue with Political Compass in a number of ways. I did their test and came out in the bottom left quadrant, where nobody in Europe who knows me would place me.
Their characterisation of the Left/Right axis strikes me as quite wrong and far too simplistic, for a start. They seem to equate it to a simple free market vs. command economy spectrum, leaving out views on the family, the social order, the church and other institutions, the military, and much else besides.
I can only conclude that American politics (I assume Political Compass is American) has come to use these terms in a way that Europeans would barely recognise.
Thatcher was an economic liberal, i.e. a free marketer, and as I recall she was not particularly authoritarian socially. She is believed to be by the Left, because she cut back trade union power and was involved in suppressing the riots that resulted from that. Thatcher was the first Conservative I voted for, as a young man fairly fresh out of college, and I voted for her more than once, in fact. I think she did the country a lot of good. So it seems bizarre that I come out on this diagram as diametrically opposed to her position.
It puts me way down along the libertarian axis, which I find very surprising to say the least.You shan't disagree with Political Compass.
They have a website with graphs.
How do you see the relationship / interaction / influence of your beliefs (religious or otherwise) with your politics?
Pehaps they are in separate boxes? Perhaps one flows from the other? Perhaps they are expressions of the same "thing"?
Thank you. I was prompted by some comments I'd read and realised that I'd never thought about the two together before in respect of my own politics and beliefs.I wish everyone would critically examine this subject. Thanks so much for raising the question. Everyone has a bias. The problem is that everyone does not recognize and admit their bias.
I'd classify your quadrant (more social liberty, less economicIt puts me way down along the libertarian axis, which I find very surprising to say the least.
I'd classify your quadrant (more social liberty, less economic
liberty) as "liberal" (N Ameristanian sense of the term).
The Libertarian Party (USA or Canuckistan) would be
in the lower right (purple) quadrant.
There is some disagreement about this (from some liberals).
I prefer the Nolan Chart.
Caution: one axis is flipped & rotated 90
degrees from the Political Compass chart.