The Political Compass

[Ixiah]

I took this test a while back 'for fun'. Figured some may find it intersting.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Just click on the link in the top left 'take the test'. You answer a series of questions and, in the end, you get to see where you are on an X and Y axis and can compare it to notable people. If I remember my coordinate geometry I ended up somewhere around point (0,-3) near nobody :lol: .

Also a section called "Iconochasms" is amusing. For example:

Which founding father said of the proposed American Constitution This is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism ... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other ?

Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Paine
George Washington

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

[kcshocker11]

Interesting, Gandhi here

[fastbow]

I guess I'm extremely centerist....

Just a taste of authoritarian right, but not enough to make a difference....

Economic: 1.12
Social: .77

[Ixiah]

Link for the 2008 candidates:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008

[ABC]

Interesting test, but Gen. Pinochet was hardly a true free marketeer.

Anyone using the power of the state and not the market to run their state isn't free market.

[dregn]

Economic Left/Right: 0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

[rrshock]

Econ left/right: -6.12
Soc Lib/Author: -1.64

Pretty much smack dab on Ghandi.

What's funny is look at the 2008 candidates. They are all in the same area, regardless of party.

[SubGod22]

Economic 1.38

Soc Lib/Author .87

[ABC]

Economic Left/Right: 6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.74

I'm close to the great American, recently deceased, Milton Friedman.

Here's Milton responding to a typical left-wing reactionary question from Phil Donahue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

[RoyalShock]

Economic Left/Right: 2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21

[Snapshot9]

Economic Left/Right -1.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian -.51

[BostonWu]

Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.87

[1979Shocker]

Snapshot9 and I are on the same wavelength.

Econominc Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03

[AndShock]

Economic Left/Right: 3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.00