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Since this is coming up in the WERP I thought it might be funny for everyone to take and talk about. Not sure how serious this topic will get beyond "I'm X on the scale", so it's going in here.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
If it's your first time there read the front page, the actual test is linked in there side bar to the left just under Home.
Here's where I sit.
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The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.49
Lol.. Kind of expected that.
I was expecting more libertarianism. The right aspect was expected, however.
As somebody who lives and socialises with the educated middle-class, I see myself as moderately liberal socialist. I've just read an article about how educated people like to think they're more left-wing than they really are, so let's put it to the test!
The thing about the Australian election is only a site feature which compared the political leanings of Australia's major political parties for 2010.
Yes, and what a telling graph it is :| No wonder the Greens are gaining credibility and popularity.
Not entirely sure I stayed completely true to my actual opinions, because I'm not entirely sure I understood all the questions correctly. English being my second language and politics/economics not being things I'm usually discussing...
These questions are subtle! I have a hard time thinking about some of them myself, but others just don't fit with my axioms. When I see "it is foolish to be proud of your country" I can't tell whether they want me to make a value judgement along with that. Sure, I agree with the statement at face value, but I think that we are all foolish people and that there's nothing wrong with being proud of your country if you don't know any better... so you see my bind?
And how far the line do I have to think with questions like "controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment"? How much liberty am I to take with the economic model in which I analyse these questions? After all I don't believe that growth is necessarily good, and you know what happens when inflation runs amok in certain systems... you get GFC. And what was the appropriate emergency response to GFC? Give everybody jobs to halt the negative growth! (At least this worked for Australia... if only it had been a little worse and bought house prices down, then I might be able to afford a house in Australia sometime in my lifetime...)
And with a lot of these questions I take the difference between "could" and "should" very seriously.
lol I want to post a response to every single question I'm being asked here. But I won't. So here's the amalgamation:
Hmm interesting test, though some of the questions...I kind of wished there was a no opinion option for when I couldn't agree or disagree with something, but still here is what I got:
Oh sorry that wasnt the same image as eveybody else sorry here is the right one
I understood the test, but I don't understand the compass, not one bit.
I didn't like a few of the questions because in my opinion, they didn't represent different arguments equally. Then again, this is pretty much what I expected, so whatever.