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Your Political Compass

Your Political Compass

I’ve taken tests like this before. Very interesting to see where people end up.

Here’s the test:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

My result:

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http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=1.00&soc=-3.18

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Reply #51 Top

I think the religious questions made the difference of left or right.

Reply #52 Top

This is what I get for growing up in a European family.

 

Reply #53 Top

I'm surprised at how few people are in the bottom right.

 

Reply #54 Top

Seems I'm about the farthest North of everybody except maybe Lantec... and I know I'm authoritarian... I want to control everything.

;P :w00t:

 

Reply #55 Top

Quoting Kazriko, reply 53

I'm surprised at how few people are in the bottom right.

 

End of Kazriko's quote

Wow Kazriko.  You make me want to dust off my copy of The Road to Serfdom.  I feel like I'm not working hard enough all of the sudden.

Reply #56 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 40


I agree. I answered "I Agree" on that.  The government's job isn't to try to control unemployment but rather to provide support for an economy that will create jobs.
End of Frogboy's quote

I've always thought stability, more than support.  Businesses need stability so they can plan and invest and grow.  They need to grow their company in order to create more jobs.  Inflation, or an unstable currency, is instability and is ruinous to job creation.  

I think in this case we probably mean the same thing (though please correct me if I'm wrong).  I'm personally leery of speaking positively about government "support" of business because what people call government support of business is largely agnostic.  Everything the government does can be spun as support of the economy.  Government support can certainly be a positive influence.  But it can also be hundreds of millions of dollars poured into some political clown's favorite project that never had a hope of being realized.  

Stability through stable monetary policy and clear, straight-forward regulations that create an even and predictable business climate.  That's the ticket.  

Edit:  As an aside thanks for posting this.  I sent it to my wife while she was at work and it turned into a spur of the moment dinner conversation as we compared our results and discussed what differences might have led to our different scores.  Made for a great meal. 

Reply #57 Top

Wow, I expected Brad to be in the extreme upper-right corner.  ;)

Reply #58 Top

Heh. Yes, I've seen people accuse me of being some right wing Fascist. In reality, I only seem that way to an extreme left winger.

Reply #59 Top

In reality it's a totally false result. Here you have Ed Milliband and David Cameron over on the right despite them being opposite ends of left and right. I am far right compared to David Cameron yet on here I appear to be very far left...

Reply #60 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 58
Heh. Yes, I've seen people accuse me of being some right wing Fascist.
End of Frogboy's quote

So where do those fools get their information? 

Given what I've read about Stardock and what it's like to work there... AND the fact your son is a Brony ;P , I'd say it's the farthest thing from the truth. 

Not saying you're an angel or anything, but it's an undeserved label, IMHO. ;)

Reply #61 Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 59

In reality it's a totally false result. Here you have Ed Milliband and David Cameron over on the right despite them being opposite ends of left and right. I am far right compared to David Cameron yet on here I appear to be very far left...
End of Fuzzy's quote

If you're going by that graph of where they put world leaders, keep in mind they also put both Romney and Obama in the upper right, and pretty far into it too. I thus think where they put the "Center" is a bit... misleading. Also, it may be they are judging politicians on what they do in office, but simply by using power doesn't any leader seem more authoritarian  whatever their personal views?

Reply #62 Top

Hmmm, I'm wondering if there's a similar test to determine a persons moral compass?

If so, I dunno I'd post the results of mine here... anywhere, for that matter, but it'd be interesting to see who's moral, amoral and immoral... just downright incorrigible.

:-"

Reply #63 Top

I'm as Apolitical as they come, I abhor politics. Too much time was wasted while things went to hell.

*sorry......* :blush:

Reply #64 Top

I think the people who make the site project their opinions on world leaders. I highly doubt that Obama and Romney, if they took the test, would end up in the upper right Like that.

Reply #65 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 64
I think the people who make the site project their opinions on world leaders. I highly doubt that Obama and Romney, if they took the test, would end up in the upper right Like that.
End of Frogboy's quote

I have to say the same thing about the Canadian party leaders. The only social platform in the last election was the Conservatives pledge to get tougher on crime, so why are the Liberals and Conservatives both so authoritative on that chart? Both parties support gay marriage...  They seem confused about what libertarian and authoritarian means, as it seems to represent both social views or statism depending on who they are looking at.

Reply #66 Top

Conservatives in America are interesting to say the least.

Reply #67 Top

Quoting gmc2, reply 51

I think the religious questions made the difference of left or right.
End of gmc2's quote

how? I'm agnostic and I'm right of center.

Reply #68 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 67
how? I'm agnostic and I'm right of center.
End of Frogboy's quote
In general religious people tend to be more conservative. You strike me as pretty pure libertarian, which having been an anarchist myself through most of junior high (don't ask!), I can understand.

 

I also suspect that the "left/right" section deals solely with social issues, while economic liberalism/conservatism is simply called "authoritarian/libertarian" on the vertical axis.

Reply #69 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 67
how? I'm agnostic and I'm right of center.
End of Frogboy's quote

You're religious about it. ;)

Reply #70 Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 68
In general religious people tend to be more conservative. You strike me as pretty pure libertarian, which having been an anarchist myself through most of junior high (don't ask!), I can understand.

 

 

I also suspect that the "left/right" section deals solely with social issues, while economic liberalism/conservatism is simply called "authoritarian/libertarian" on the vertical axis.

End of Scoutdog's quote

 

Just because someone is Agnostic doesn't mean they're religious. There are agnostic atheists and agnostic theists. Agnostic atheists believe that divine creation is unlikely and most likely didn't occur but aren't going to go around tooting their horn about it because they believe in the burden of proof (Id est. the scientific process). Unfortunately in conservative America you run into predominantly Gnostic Theists.

Reply #71 Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 67


Quoting gmc2,
reply 51

I think the religious questions made the difference of left or right.

how? I'm agnostic and I'm right of center.
End of Frogboy's quote

I noticed that some of the respondents have fairly religious opinions (from joeuser posts) and they all fell over into the right. I'm sure that one size doesn't fit all but that it was note worthy. In your case, and probably others, not.

 

Reply #72 Top

Quoting Nichtganz, reply 70
Just because someone is Agnostic doesn't mean they're religious. There are agnostic atheists and agnostic theists. Agnostic atheists believe that divine creation is unlikely and most likely didn't occur but aren't going to go around tooting their horn about it because they believe in the burden of proof (Id est. the scientific process). Unfortunately in conservative America you run into predominantly Gnostic Theists.

End of Nichtganz's quote
I just find it ironic that you are using a two-axis color-coded quadrant graph to point out the flaws in a two-axis color-coded quadrant graph.

Reply #73 Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 72


Quoting Nichtganz, reply 70Just because someone is Agnostic doesn't mean they're religious. There are agnostic atheists and agnostic theists. Agnostic atheists believe that divine creation is unlikely and most likely didn't occur but aren't going to go around tooting their horn about it because they believe in the burden of proof (Id est. the scientific process). Unfortunately in conservative America you run into predominantly Gnostic Theists.

I just find it ironic that you are using a two-axis color-coded quadrant graph to point out the flaws in a two-axis color-coded quadrant graph.
End of Scoutdog's quote

Well my opinion much like others is subjective. I see Gnosticism as being deeply flawed. In my mind Gnostic atheists are just as bad as Gnostic theists. My personal opinion aside i was trying to state that there can be atheistic and theistic agnostics.

Reply #74 Top

Don't take it too seriously. I just thought the resemblance between the graphs was funny.

Reply #75 Top

Fun little thing, I have done these before, pretty much what I suspected: