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nirvana is samsara
Ed Milliband is on the right?! There goes the socialist vision...
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What is your position in the Political Spectrum?
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metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
My results on the test was:
Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62
On the chart, I was in roughly the middle of the lower left square (more libertarian and to the left), almost exactly where Gandhi and the Dalai Lama would be located. No surprise-- read my signature.
Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62
On the chart, I was in roughly the middle of the lower left square (more libertarian and to the left), almost exactly where Gandhi and the Dalai Lama would be located. No surprise-- read my signature.
It really isn't that simple.
Very few ideologies fit into a linear spectrum, especially when the two major parties in the US can be accurately described as far-right and center-right. If you spend a bit of time here you're going to find that we're a bunch that likes to break down terms and actually look into the ideas behind then, and that doesn't make using the "left-right" spectrum very helpful.
Most tools for political analysis that I've seen have gone to a quadrant-style graph that use both economic and social scales to place ideologies, and it tends to offer a more accurate measurement:
Here's a link to that site if you'd like to take the test: The Political Compass
I'm a fair bit southwest of the Dalai Lama on that scale.
I can't stand that test, since it's so biased.
Last time I took it, I was in the extreme lower left corner.
I recall that there were very few of us in the lower right (purple) corner.
Your quadrant is more populated, but we have Milton Friedman's ghost in ours.
Yup, I'd say that classifies as "far left."
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I voted "Far Left" because that's the category my views fall under where I am. Even most self-described left-wingers here would disagree with me on a lot of my views because they consider most of them "too liberal."
These are my results on that test:
It really isn't that simple.
Very few ideologies fit into a linear spectrum, especially when the two major parties in the US can be accurately described as far-right and center-right. If you spend a bit of time here you're going to find that we're a bunch that likes to break down terms and actually look into the ideas behind then, and that doesn't make using the "left-right" spectrum very helpful.
Most tools for political analysis that I've seen have gone to a quadrant-style graph that use both economic and social scales to place ideologies, and it tends to offer a more accurate measurement:
Here's a link to that site if you'd like to take the test: The Political Compass
I'm a fair bit southwest of the Dalai Lama on that scale.
These are my results on that test:
GoodbyeDave
Well-Known Member
If it puts the leader of the Labour Party as a rightist, I presume this test is USian. It puts me on the line midway between Libertarian and Authoritarian, but as Left as Chavez — an odd position for an admirer of Margaret Thatcher!
When someone gets a result that does not fit with his or her self-image, the question is always why. Country could be one reason. Or maybe you admire Margaret Thatcher for particular reasons which the test did not ask?
GoodbyeDave
Well-Known Member
It's as I said. The web site belongs to a US newspaper, and the political concepts of the US are very different to those of Europe. And if they put the British Conservative and Labour parties close together, or Angela Merkel to the right of David Cameron, then they don't understand Europe.
Phil25
Active Member
Exactly, I dont think it is accurate either. Obama, Romney, and Miliband are next to each other even though their views are vastly different.
Good point. I don't think anyone outside of the far left would put President Obama where they have him.
Phil25
Active Member
Correct
I usually describe myself as "on the liberal side of moderate".
So I suppose Center-Left?
So I suppose Center-Left?
How is this known?
The Wikipedia article on it points to Britain.
Political compass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phil25
Active Member
Guess they are Americans living in Britain. Maybe.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
The Nolan chart puts me at borderline liberal and libertarian, with the star being just far enough on the liberal side to be considered liberal.
On the British Political compass (which really needs a "neither agree nor disagree) I'm still way down on the lower-left corner.
I was going to do Pournelle's chart, but I couldn't find a place to take it.
On the British Political compass (which really needs a "neither agree nor disagree) I'm still way down on the lower-left corner.
I was going to do Pournelle's chart, but I couldn't find a place to take it.