The Political Compass

[Jawa]

You may have seen this before, but I thought I'd put it out there for anyone interested in it. Essentially you answer a series of questions (takes 10 minutes or so) and based on your answers you're plotted on a graph depicting your economic and social positions. Rather than a one dimensial LEFT-RIGHT graph the Political Compass does a two dimensial graph that analyzes both economic views and social views.

If nothing else, some of the questions make you think. Where do you fall?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

 

[xj-grin]

deep into the libertarian quadrant, as I would have expected -- the questions, however aren't really great, as with many of them I neither agreed nor disagreed, but rather disagreed with underlying assumptions in the question. Like: "Do you believe that the corporate good always equates to the public good?" -- well, if it is a corporation that prospers due to government handouts and favors, obviously no. If it is a corporation that propspers because it provides the public with a good product at a fair price, then hell yes...atriot:

 

[jimgrms]

And i wonder which corp has the publics best interest at heart ; never heard of one

 

[Jawa]

And i wonder which corp has the publics best interest at heart ; never heard of one

That's essentially one of the questions...

 

[xj-grin]

And i wonder which corp has the publics best interest at heart ; never heard of one

No, Jim, you're missing my point, I'm not interested in public interest corporations, they're just non-profits and probably surviving on the tax dole. There are two kind of corporations (1) Halliburton types, that gain unfair business advantage through government contacts and cronyism, and then destroy their competition through such favors to then extort higher prices for their product, regardless of quality, through the resulting monopoly; and (2) corporations that want to make a product better than their competition, and sell it cheaper, so as to gain market share by selling the public what they want at a better price. The first one screws the consumer on both ends by swallowing up tax dollars and raising prices, the second one helps the consumer by providing a product they want and effectively lowering prices through competition. Unfortunately, we now have a boatload of big corporations, and a few failing examples of the latter (i.e. Ford), aside from smaller mom-and-pop small businesses. And really that is the key, like government, when a business is closer to its community, it does a lot better job of meeting their needs.:roll:

 

[DutchVDub]

Apparently I'm a leftwing authoritarian, or as they put it a communistic fascist.

Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.33

 

[Jawa]

I knew it...

 

[Stang5lgt]

I am a rightwing , authoritarian. Very close to center though. I don't agree with the compass findings. But whatever good way to waste 10 mins.

 

[goodburbon]

Economic Left/Right: 0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.03


I will agree that some of the questions were a bit...odd. Like If one of the advantages of the one party system was the ability to get things done quickly.

Of course it's an advantage, but it doesn't mean I want a one party system.

 

[Blue96XJ]

Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.31

Interesting...not where I thought I would land either, but the questioning goes to show there are NO absolutes. I'll take the middle any day, just means I (we) can probably compromise better than most.

 

[thejeepgod]

im not really sure what that scale means, but im closer to ghandi than i am to hitler so im gonna call that a win

 

[DutchVDub]

Hitler took a nation deep within the thrawls of a mass economic and social depression and made it the most powerful nation on earth. Ghandi starved himself to death. Who is really the smart one here?

And no, I am not a NAZI nor do I support the actions of the NAZI party. I do however look at things from more than one point of view. You should watch "The Wave", its a really good movie.