The Political Compass

[POOH&PIGLET]

Take the test.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Where do you fall?

I remember this being posted on the debate board some time ago.

 

[WDSearcher]

I was surprised to find out that I was right there with Ghandi and Mandela. I thought I was more "hard core" than that!

 

[septbride2002]

Another Ghandi and Mandela over here! I'm proud of this!

~Amanda

 

[crazyforgoofy]

I'm there with you septbride2002 and WDSearcher! Not bad company, eh?

 

[Crankyshank]

Right by Ghandi and Mandela as well

 

[nativetxn]

I'm "authoritarian/libertarian". Guess I right there with Mandela, too.

 

[herc]

I was about the same as Ariel Sharon and Thatcher

 

[jrydberg]

right/libertarian aka "The Empty Quadrant"

 

[luvsTink]

I was just south on Mandela. Not a surprise, but a very very interesting web site. I have always thought that a left right continuum wasn't quite right.

Thanks!!

Anne

 

[JimB.]

I was closest to Gerhard Schroder & Paul Martin.

Economic left/right +2.62
Authoritatian/Libertarian -0.15.

I found it interesting that Saddan Hussein & Yassar Arafat are next to each other.....................

 

[llij]

I was near Nelson Mandela!

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I'm in the libertarian/right quadrant.

And am I the only one that dislikes this particular test? For one, there was no "neutral/not sure" choice and there were a few questions where I would have answered that way. In criminal justice, punishment should be more important than rehabilitation, for example. I think both are important and I'm unsure if one is more important than the other.

Also, the way some of the questions are asked bug the heck out of me. A same sex couple in a stable, loving relationship, should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption already has two negatives ("not" and "excluded"), and if someone were to disagree that's three negatives they have to think their way through. Our race has many superior qualities, compared to other races -- "our race?" What the heck is this supposed to refer to? Race as in Caucasian/African/Oriental/etc.? Race as in humanity compared to an alien race from another planet?

www.lp.org, the Libertarian Party's web page, has a link to the World's Smallest Political Quiz -- 10 simple questions that grade you on a quadrant very similar to this one.

 

[rcyannacci]

I took this quiz last time and I think, if I remember correctly, that I feel somewhere between The Dixie Chicks and Martha Stewart

 

[lucysdad]

It seems I might just be the next Dahli Lama

I do agree with Obi-Wan, I would have definitely answered some of the questions with a not sure, or a neutral. And I also wondered which race thery were referring to.

 

[LoraJ]

I was also by Ghandi and Mandela

 

[richiebaseball]

Left leaning Libertarian here. I don't believe it for a second.

Richard

 

[luvsTink]

obi-wan...your link was a little off, and a direct link to the other quiz is:
http://www.theadvocates.org

I have to question the validity of this one as well....of course all quizzes and polls are simply the snap shots of a specific moment in time. the advocates quiz suggests that I am a centrist, sitting on the left. Maybe...but I don't think most folks would call me a centrist "leftist pinko" maybe but rarely a centrist



Anne