Political Compass

I invite you to tale the test

Published on November 28, 2004 By dabe In Politics

This is an interesting website. Link There are six web pages of questions about where you would tend to stand on a presented issue. When you finish the test, an explanation of the compass is given, and you are compared to a few world leaders as to where you might stand. Needless to say, I pointed toward the liberal, and the leader I would likely follow is Gandhi. Give it a try. It may provide some interesting discussions.

Comments

Lee1776

on Nov 28, 2004

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.87

Cool site dabe, Thanks

I'm a little economicly to the right of Paul Martin. Thats about where I thought I would be.

I did wish there was a middle group though. There was another poll someone had a few months ago and I was basicly labeled a jack booted thug.

But I like this one better because the questions was more leveled.

Thanks again.

iamheather

on Nov 28, 2004

Here is what mine looked like. Just as I thought.

Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.26
Actually, I am not sure how unbiased or true this site is because it showed me much closer to John Kerry than George Bush! LOL

latour999

on Nov 28, 2004

Mine was also just as I thought:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.03

In terms of world leaders, I was closest to the Dalai Lama. In presidential candidates, no one was really close. I was economically slightly closer to Nader than the Socialist Party's Walt Brown, but more Libertarian than all the candidadtes (including, ironically, Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party). I was closest to Nader, but still far off because I was in the Libertarian extreme (or looney bottom-left, I guess

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dabe

on Nov 28, 2004

I didn't write down my scores, unfortunately. I dunno why not. But, as I said, I am pretty far off to the bottom left of the compass, putting me closest to Gandhi, and also to the Dalai Lama and Nader, though I would not vote for Nader.

I found this interesting because the compass put Kerry and Bush rather close together. I guess I knew this, given that Kerry is really a rather moderate democrat, and not the liberal left whacko that the righties made him out to be. Oh well, seems kind of moot now.

dabe

on Nov 28, 2004

I took the test again to be able to post my scores.

Economic Left/Right -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -5.33

Genghis Hank

on Nov 28, 2004

For what it's worth, I came in pretty middle of the road.

Economic Left/Right: -0.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.54

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