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Political Compass Results

amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
It's a liberal (N Ameristanian usage of the term) forum.
Few conservatives.
Fewer authoritarians.
And fewer still libertarians.

Yeah but the left-going people here are still in the bottom-left quadrant, which is for libertarians. Would you prefer that to if they were in the top-left?

I seem to be in a sort of weird spot, right at the left edge, but just short of being in the authoritarian quadrant
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Yeah but the left-going people here are still in the bottom-left quadrant. Would you prefer that to if they were in the top-left?
The bottom left is really "liberal".
Tis not for me to prefer that they be other than who they are.
But it might be fun to have more with me in the bottom right
quadrant (the true libertarians).
I seem to be in a sort of weird spot, right at the left edge, but just short of being in the authoritarian quadrant
That is indeed uncommon.
 
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beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
Yeah but the left-going people here are still in the bottom-left quadrant, which is for libertarians. Would you prefer that to if they were in the top-left?

I seem to be in a sort of weird spot, right at the left edge, but just short of being in the authoritarian quadrant
Recall that there are two axis...axes...axises...eh, whatever...

Economic Left/Right, with Left being for regulated economy and right before for freer markets...

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian, with bottom being more individual freedom and the top being more central control...

So, bottom left is for more individual freedom and more regulation of the economy, while @Revoltingest...eh, the lower right...is for individual freedom and less regulation of the economy...

The upper quadrants favor central control of social relations, with either more or less regulation of economic activity.

Edit: sent too soon...being on the edge between means that the test measures you as being evenly divided on individual or central authority, while being pretty much for economic regulation...
 

amorphous_constellation

Well-Known Member
So, bottom left is for more individual freedom and more regulation of the economy, while @Revoltingest...eh, the lower right...is for individual freedom and less regulation of the economy...

Yeah, my thought though was that the two bottom quadrants have a libertarian impulse in common, so my instinct would be that perhaps the common right-leaning libertarians might be the most compatible with the left-siders who inhabit the bottom. I might also intuit that one is least compatible with views in the diagonal quadrant. I haven't thought about the hard details in politics all that much though, so perhaps I am wrong

Edit: sent too soon...being on the edge between means that the test measures you as being evenly divided on individual or central authority, while being pretty much for economic regulation...

I think maybe being on the middle line reflects some neutrality about social authority. I'm unsure if it's something that humans have pinned down to a science, it's not something we really understand. It's squirrely
 

Friend of Mara

Active Member
Hmm. Be gay. Do witchcraft. F*ck the state.
 

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Yazata

Active Member
The bottom left is really "liberal".

It looks to me like the left-right axis is about social issues, with "progressive" on the left (those alienated individuals who want everything to change and to become more idealized/utopian) and "traditional" on the right (those who aren't so alienated and like many things more or less as they are). It's about how hard you want to push for social change.

And the up-down axis is about coercion, about how whether people should be compelled (by the law, the state, by revolution, cancel-culture or antifa) to move left or right.

I guess that I would agree that the bottom left is "liberal" in historical European sense of that word. In the US, it might be more "left-libertarian" or something like that. Though that being said, European "liberalism" today has become essentially the ideology of big-business, favoring whatever is in the interests of the big London banks (the Economist magazine is their mouthpiece). They tend to be rather "woke" socially, favoring things like open borders (cheaper labor) but demand that government keep hands off regulating business and oppose nationalism and protectionism like the plague. So like many, where they stand on the left-right and up-down lines depends on the particular issue. What makes it consistent is whether it's in the interest of multinational corporations.

In the US, "liberal" is more along the lines of what Europeans call "social democrat", in other words socialism-lite. Things like single-payer health insurance, where everyone must have the insurance and where there is no choice but to accept the government offering. Coercion slipping in.

Tis not for me to prefer that they be other than who they are.
But it might be fun to have more with me in the bottom right
quadrant (the true libertarians).

That's the quadrant that I most identify with, even if my answers place me more towards the center. I'm not culturally alienated and don't want what exists today to go away in favor of... what?... some idyllic utopian future that exists only in the imagination? I respect and value the contributions of my parents and of everyone who came before me, as imperfect as they might have been. I think that positive change is most likely to be incremental and not wholesale and revolutionary. That makes me something of a classical conservative, I guess.

But I don't think that the state should be enforcing these things. I believe very strongly in the principle of democracy, where decisions on where on the left-right axis society should place itself should rise up from the freely-expressed and un-manipulated will of the people themselves, instead of being imposed on them by elites from above.

That is indeed uncommon.

Certainly on this board.
 
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Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Ooh you're more liberal axis than me but practically the same left axis.
I can't remember what the questions were and I wouldn't take it too seriously, but I'm not surprised so many of us tend to end up somewhere in the green bit. Probably why I joined the forum. :oops:
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I can't remember what the questions were and I wouldn't take it too seriously, but I'm not surprised so many of us tend to end up somewhere in the green bit. Probably why I joined the forum. :oops:
RF is one big echo chamber.
It's like a big steaming pile of something,
with a few of us ourliers buzzing around it.
 

Lain

Well-Known Member
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It's fascinating to me how my results for this test of changed since I got older. I went from far right to mid-left economically, and extremely libertarian to near the middle of authoritarian. Not sure what it practically means but it's cool to look at. I wouldn't be surprised if both of those things continued.
 
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