UPDATE to the 2012 Political Compass check-in. Take the candidate quiz and add those results too!

[GreenPartyVoter]

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http://www.isidewith.com/ FYI I took this one twice, once strictly Yes or No, and then again with the "choose another stance" options and I got some different answers at the end, so do look at all the answer possibilities before selecting one.




http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

I was way down in the lower left-hand corner a few years ago. I will retake the test and let you know where I stand now.

Editing for the results: Economic Left/Right: -9.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

[Faygo Kid]

1. Lower left hand corner. No surprise.

Not all the way to the bottom or left, but pretty much down there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Me too, and I am definitely getting lower as the years pass. :^)

[Warpy]

201. Lower left corner for me, it's always been like that

and it looks like I am not mellowing with age.

[GreenPartyVoter]

217. :^)

[Comrade_McKenzie]

2. Economic Left/Right: -10.00; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.85 nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. You are way down there. :^)

[Comrade_McKenzie]

12. Proudly. :D nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. *high five!*

[rurallib]

6. -8.38 & -7.64

Why the fuck are we negative numbers? I would think the crazy right should be negative.

[GreenPartyVoter]

216. Heheh.

[Vincardog]

5. Economic Left/Right: -9.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.69.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[Va Lefty]

7. Economic Left/Right-(-6.75); Social Libertarian/Authoritarian-(-4.21)

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Thanks for posting your numbers. :^)

[Honeycombe8]

8. I don't even understand what this means. And who are all those people. Rocky Anderson? nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. They are all candidates for 2012. What it means is a system of plotting where you (and they) land

on the grid based on the questions in the quiz. Our American concept of Left vs Right runs from the lower lefthand corner diagonally up to the upper righthand corner.

[Orangepeel]

25. There is no way semi-realistic answers to that quiz would put Obama where they put him

I looked for a page that detailed how they answered the questions for each candidate, but I couldn't find one. The only explanation is a listing of some of the worst things Obama has done and an offensive suggestion that people only voted for him in 2008 because he's black.

The quiz puts test takers in a quadrant based, it seems, on answers to a whole range of questions. The libertarians who made the chart put Obama in a quadrant, based, it seems, on the extension of the bush tax cuts, drone strikes, and the appointment of industry people to the EPA and FDA.

An argument can certainly be made that Obama has behaved in ways that are right leaning and authoritarian. But it is not realistic to suggest that this quiz would put him in that quadrant of the chart.

[Honeycombe8]

28. That's what lead me to conclude that I must not understand it, because it's wrong. nt

[LWolf]

159. I find it more accurate

than more simplistic measures traditionally used in the U.S..

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. I think he should have come out more in the middle. As I was saying before, my conservative

friends and relatives seem to land in the green quadrant or near to it, so it seems odd that Obama doesn't make it at least to the cross-hairs in the middle. (It would be cool if the President would take the quiz, just to see where he lands in comparison, but I am sure he is a bit busy just now.)

[Orangepeel]

32. this quiz might actually be valid for all I know; it's the chart with politicians I take issue with

well, that and the rest of the libertarian bullshit on that site.

I thought the quiz was interesting and I don't have issues with where it put me. There is just no way that the answers to those questions would result in Obama falling where he does. Hell, Romney might not even be that authoritarian, although I guess that would depend on who he was talking to at the time.

To give any kind of credibility to those placements, I would need to see how the answers attributed to each politician resulted in that score. Like I said, I looked for it on the site. When I got to the "argument" that Obama voters put more emphasis on his pigment than his policies, I said fuck this shit and gave up.

So I came to the conclusion that maybe the quiz is valid or the placement is valid, or neither. They aren't both valid.

But again, the quiz was interesting.

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. At the very least it was intriguing to see what (some) people from England think about our politics.

[HERVEPA]

26. You know, you could have looked it up.

[Honeycombe8]

29. Thank you. O wise one. I didn't need to. I concluded I must not understand, because it's WRONG.

The conclusions and plats shown in the OP are clearly wrong, so I know I must not understand it.

[HERVEPA]

114. If you didn't know who Rocky Anderson is, you could look it up.

[Egalitarian Thug]

136. So what was your score? n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. They updated the questions.

In the past, I didn't test as Libertarian as I did tonight.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Yeah, they do change up the questions from time to time it seems.

[Rowdyboy]

19. I was directly below you...econ -7.75 soc -4.41

That was fun

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. I enjoy these little quizzes, even if they really don't mean anything. I will be posting more as

I find them. Teen son and I are on a political quiz kick.

[Tribetime]

143. thats almost exactly where I ended up

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Teen son took it. Is -7.5, -5.23.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Conservative hubby took it, also landed in the green square. I find the conservatives in my family

are usually annoyed that they don't rank more "right," and complain that the test is skewed.

[GreenPartyVoter]

38. Fellow Green took it: 8.5, -5.28

[LWolf]

160. I think it's because

people in the U.S. have a particularly skewed understanding of right and left.

[GreenPartyVoter]

162. Probably, esp since we have a couple of specific wedge issues acting as

a litmus test for political orientation.

[GreenPartyVoter]

119. 12 yo son took it: Economic Left/Right: -5.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.05

[Puregonzo1188]

14. Economic Left/Right: -9.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90

Rocky Anderson and Gary Johnson's placements strike me as a bit odd. Johnson who is pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, and pro-drug legalization seems to me like he should be down further though--this his economic placement seems perfect.

I would have expected Anderson to be closer to Stein, but maybe I am missing something.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. I was surprised the Green and Socialist candidates weren't further down and leftward.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

15. O.K., I'm not as authoritarian as I thought I was.

God damnnit, yes, I am!! I will make that test compute properly.

Economic Left/Right: -9.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

[GreenPartyVoter]

40. LOL It is very easy to make it come out closer to where you want. I think that's why they insist

people take it before reading up on what the whole site is about.

[Odin2005]

18. Economic: -10.00, Social: -6.33

[GreenPartyVoter]

41. A perfect 10, and just in time for the Olympics! (Not that they use those anymore, I guess.)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Economic Left/Right: -6.50//Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. Thanks for joining in, Peggy! How are you feeling? *hugs*

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. Hey, my pleasure!

I'm feeling OK, not a lot of energy yet, and a little low-level nausea is all. I'm going to have some lovely scars!

Thanks for asking, my dear GreenPartyVoter!

[GreenPartyVoter]

44. I hope you are back to full-steam-ahead soon! :^D

[TheKentuckian]

22. Economic Left/Right: -9.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

[GreenPartyVoter]

55. Thanks for posting. :^)

[nc4bo]

27. Economic Left/Right: -9.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03.

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I have no idea how I ended up this far to the left. I remember taking this test before and I don't remember it being this severe.

[GreenPartyVoter]

45. They do change out the questions, so that might have some effect. At the very least, I guess we

really can't compare old and new numbers for that reason.

[supernova]

30. Economic Left/Right: -8.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

Lower and to the left of Gandhi.

I'd probably be happiest in one of the Scandinavian countries, as far as agreeing with society and gov't policy.

edit: I'm in roughly the same place as I was the first time we did it several years ago. And I agree the placement of Obama in the upper right quadrant is odd. I'd put him more dead center, or lower red and center. He's more heavy on authoritarian aspects than we elected him to be. That could be his governing style or the times we live in, alas.

[GreenPartyVoter]

50. Ah, I too would like the Scandinavian countries! :^)

[rdking647]

34. economic 0.0 social libertarian -4.05

i thought id be a little to the left economically not dead center

[GreenPartyVoter]

53. That's interesting how it didn't match up with what you thought. It just goes to show that

these quizzes can be fun, but are probably not something you should swear by.

[GaYellowDawg]

188. Hmm. Economic Left/Right: -8.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31

Don't quite know what to make of that.

[LeftishBrit]

36. Economic -7.25; Social -6.87

Interesting test, but does not really include much about the role of public services, which is one of the most crucial issues these days.

Also, the scores of politicians will always be a guess, as they have presumably not taken the test. And, though it's a defensible view to say that both Obama and Romney are right of centre, they certainly differ far more from each other than the graph suggests, IMO.

[GreenPartyVoter]

68. I agree. You should email them and tell them your idea about adding

more questions regarding public services.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

37. Economic Left/Right: -8.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.72

[GreenPartyVoter]

70. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[Chisox08]

39. I'm at -7.5 and -6.46

[GreenPartyVoter]

71. Thanks for posting. :^)

[center rising]

46. Just below Ghandi

[GreenPartyVoter]

75. Not a bad person to be by. :^D

[crimson77]

47. Economic left/right .25 and on Social Libertarian/Authoritarian I am -1.28.

[GreenPartyVoter]

87. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[TexasTowelie]

48. -6.88 on the economic left and -7.69 on the social.

Deep in the fertile green field smoking away.

[Tx4obama]

49. But 'overall' President Obama is rated as a hard-core Liberal - see chart below

The chart above is at the bottom of the page here: http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. Having trouble finding it. Is it possible for an everyday person to score themselves there?

[Tx4obama]

60. Not sure what problem it is that you're having.

Just click on the link: http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm

then let the page load fully and look towards the bottom of the page,
you might have to scroll up a couple inches once your down at the bottom.

And I believe that you can not score yourself there, it is a website that scores all of the 'political leaders'.

[GreenPartyVoter]

67. No, sorry I was unclear. I found the Obama stuff just fine. Just couldn't find

anything for the average Joe or Joanne.

I appreciate the link. It's good to have a site that compiles documentation on the issues like that.

[LWolf]

161. Of course, this is a different tool,

using different measures and limited definitions, and doesn't correlate to the political compass.

[ibegurpard]

51. Economic -6.75 Social -5.59

[GreenPartyVoter]

74. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[MichaelSoE]

52. I'm a -7.1,-6.1

[GreenPartyVoter]

76. Thanks for taking the quiz. :^)

[cleanhippie]

54. -5.12, -4.00

[Zorra]

56. I resent the first question immensely.

"If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations."

The Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

It is virtually impossible for economic globalization to ever serve humanity unless humanity evolves significantly. Economic globalization hinders human evolution by creating a global, unchallengeable plutarchy comprised of of evolutionarily regressive human beings who benefit from/by deliberately hindering human evolution.

Catch 22.

Natural selection in humans, which historically has occurred because of adaptation to natural physical circumstances, has been effectively aborted by global economic imperialism. Human beings, deliberately propagandized into submission, and believing that their survival is dependent on a malevolent, aggressive status quo, have lost all possibility of genuine mass self-determination, and lack the collective will to attain the critical mass necessary to rebel against, and usurp, the regressive, ruthless plutarchs who control their very existence to a very significant degree. Hence, significant, effective, progressive adaptation has become impossible.

We are, in general, rapidly devolving due to economic globalism.

Because of global economic imperialism, we have essentially become a world comprised primarily of slaves who lack the collective will to overthrow our masters and the force of their economic, and media controlled, subjection of us.

Only "Mother Nature" or an "act of God" can change this course now; in any event, simply because of its essential nature, economic globalization can never primarily serve human interests.

Marcos

The global power of the financial centers is so great, that they can afford not to worry about the political tendency of those who hold power in a nation, if the economic program (in other words, the role that nation has in the global economic megaprogram) remains unaltered. The financial disciplines impose themselves upon the different colors of the world political spectrum in regards to the government of any nation. The great world power can tolerate a leftist government in any part of the world, as long as the government does not take measures that go against the needs of the world financial centers. But in no way will it tolerate that an alternative economic, political and social organization consolidate. For the megapolitics, the national politics are dwarfed and submit to the dictates of the financial centers. It will be this way until the dwarfs rebel . .

Marcos is correct. However, recent events have made it very clear that the dwarfs lack the courage and will to ever rebel in numbers significant enough to regain working democracy and collective and individual liberty.

[GreenPartyVoter]

57. I found several of the questions to be oddly worded. Depending on how you

looked at the situations they posited, you could come out with completely different answers.

[eqfan592]

62. I'm pretty sure that's kinda the point of the survey... ;) (nt)

[GreenPartyVoter]

66. LOL Well, yes, but what I meant is that my very liberal Green friend took the quiz, with

me reading it to her over the phone. So I got to hear her reasoning on most of the questions, and a few of them she startled me by answering the opposite of what I expected. So when she laid her thought process out I was able to see how easy it was to either a) misunderstand the question, or b) add on situational possibilities which then changed the meaning of the questions.

[Zorra]

64. For sure. The fact that the very first question places the phrase "economic globalisation"

right next to the phrase "is inevitable" makes me want to scream.

It very much appears to me to be a form of subliminal associative propaganda designed to make "globalization is inevitable" into a talking point/soundbyte of collective conventional wisdom.

"Progress is inevitable" ~ "Globalization is inevitable"

[ieoeja]

58. -5.62 & -5.03

[GreenPartyVoter]

77. Thanks for adding your numbers! :^)

[Curtland1015]

61. -8.12, -7.44

Not too shabby.

[GreenPartyVoter]

78. Thanks for joining the thread. :^)

[eqfan592]

63. It's kinda sad that so many of us are on the exact opposite end of the spectrum from the President..

...we support. Seems like the country just keeps getting dragged further and further to the upper right there.

[GreenPartyVoter]

81. It sure does!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

86. That's if you buy that he's in that grouping

I don't. Where's the proof he's ever taken such a test?

[GreenPartyVoter]

88. They justify his grouping here:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

Someone upthread in post 49 (I think) has a different graph that places him differently.

Edited because the first post number was wrong.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

89. I think there are a lot of flaws in that....

....the questions are, in some instances, too abstract to project what a politician really feels on a given matter. To me, unless you hand them a copy of it and tell them to fill it out, you don't have bupkis.

[GreenPartyVoter]

90. It's a guessing game, for sure. Also, you can't be certain that a presidency necessarily

reflects personal beliefs.

[AtomicKitten]

65. -7.62; -6.15

[GreenPartyVoter]

94. Love your sigpic! :^) I had a kitteh who ate popcorn.

[AtomicKitten]

107. hey

thanks!

[GliderGuider]

69. -9.38, -9.49 - I'm a bit of a political skeptic.

I have little patience for modern Industrial Politics. Alexander and Stein both seem suspiciously right-wing to me. Of course I live in the capital of Free North Canuckistan, recently renamed Bakuningrad...

[NRaleighLiberal]

103. I am as well....pretty interesting test, tho!

[tama]

155. Dam, you beat me! :D

I got only Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08, but my embarrassed and pitiful excuse is that some of the questions were practically impossible for Citizens of Bakunistan to answer - or was it Kropotkinistan today, hard to keep up as Big Brother keeps changing the name of our Slapstickstan on daily basis...

[Zorra]

72. -9.25 ~ -8.56....Gone beyond left.

[GreenPartyVoter]

96. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[bluedigger]

73. Economic Left/Right: -6.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79

Third or fourth time I've done one of these, and despite the questions changing, I come out remarkably similarly every time.

[GreenPartyVoter]

111. Really? That's very interesting, considering the changing of the questions. :^) I myself

have been heading more and more toward that lower lefthand corner. If it's the question switch-out or that I'm getting more liberal as I get older, I'm not sure!

[hunter]

79. Economic Left/Right: -10.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67

Clearly I'm a radical leftist libertarian.

[NRaleighLiberal]

102. you and me too!

[Prism]

80. -3.25, -4.10

What's funny is I usually feel like a flaming liberal on DU, but I'm clearly somewhat to the right of the majority of respondents (though still firmly on the Left). How odd, lol.

[GreenPartyVoter]

112. I figure anyone in the green box is a flaming lib, at least as far as

FAUX Snooze would describe us.

[me b zola]

82. ...

Economic Left/Right: -9.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.41

[GreenPartyVoter]

113. Thanks for adding your numbers! :^)

[Hatchling]

83. Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

I get further to the left each year.

[GreenPartyVoter]

115. I do too, despite the changing of the of questions.

[Alduin]

84. Economic Left/Right: -6.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.10

I didn't understand some of the terms in the economic section.

I'm the opposite of Obama. I noticed he's not far from Romney in his ideals, according to the Political Compass. Makes me wonder...

[GreenPartyVoter]

116. A few of the questions were worded weirdly to me, and had me taking a stab in the dark for

an answer. Sounds like maybe you did that too?

[Alduin]

117. Yeah.

I'm not big on economics, so I had to guess on a couple of those questions.

[bigwillq]

85. Economic Left/Right: -6.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

[HeiressofBickworth]

91. Wow, I though I was a serious lefty

but compared to some of your scores, I'm not as left as I always thought.

[GreenPartyVoter]

92. That's ok. It's not about comparing ourselves to each other :^)

[HeiressofBickworth]

97. Not comparing, really

just marveling at the depth of leftness on DU. I'm impressed!

[GreenPartyVoter]

98. I am too. :^)

[alittlelark]

93. Economic Left/Right: -9.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77

I'm further left and south than when I last took one of these tests.

[GreenPartyVoter]

118. I am too. :^)

[SteveG]

95. no change since the last time I took this

ec=-7.12&soc=-7.08http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-7.12&soc=-7.08

[GreenPartyVoter]

121. Down to the exact numbers, or more or less same spot on the grid?

[SteveG]

183. -7's on both last time as well. (nt)

nt

[Starry Messenger]

99. ec=-9.88 & soc=-7.59

[GreenPartyVoter]

120. Thanks for joining the fun! :^)

[WCGreen]

100. This is fun....

I am four up from Libertarian and five to the right of left....

[GreenPartyVoter]

125. Yeah, I love doing these things. I really enjoyed having my kids participate too. :^)

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[NRaleighLiberal]

101. I remember this! Economic -7.88 Social -9.03 - one again, near Gandhi!

[GreenPartyVoter]

126. A good person to be by. :^)

[NRaleighLiberal]

127. very peaceful and quiet.

[TDale313]

104. left/right -7.50 libertarian/authoritarian -6.72

Pretty deep green Thanks for posting this.

[GreenPartyVoter]

129. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^) Keep an eye out, there are other kinds of quizzes that may get

posted soon, such as the "Which candidate is right for you." I always enjoy those too.

[DissidentVoice]

105. My results

Slightly down of Stewart Alexander and slightly left of Jill Stein.

[GreenPartyVoter]

131. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[Kaleva]

106. Economic Left/Right: -3.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.95

The political figures I'm closet to are Mahmoud Abbas who is the Chairman of the PLO and Alexis Tsipras who is a Greek left wing politician.

I'm as left as those two men are and I split the difference between the two on the authoritarian/libertarian scale.

[GreenPartyVoter]

132. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[Kaleva]

134. Hopefully you'll put these answers into some kind of graph.

[GreenPartyVoter]

137. I doubt can pull that together. Are you good at that sort of thing?

[Kaleva]

138. No but somebody here might be.

I'll post a request in the Lounge with a link to your thread here.

[GreenPartyVoter]

139. Thanks! :^)

[justabob]

108. econ -8.62 social -7.23

Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.23

About the same as the last time I took the quiz.

[GreenPartyVoter]

140. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[beveeheart]

109. My results

-6.9,-4.4 positioned me near Gandhi.

[GreenPartyVoter]

146. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[eqfan592]

110. Well here I am. Actually moved a little to the upper right since I last took this test a ways back.

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

[GreenPartyVoter]

147. Do you think the last time you took the test was before the most recent

change-out of questions?

[the nite has 1K eyez]

122. I am voting straight Greens myself.

[GreenPartyVoter]

123. Green Party or candidates in the green quadrant? (Hard to vote a straight Green ticket in most

places. I myself actually vote for more Dems simply because most times they are the most left-leaning candidates offered.)

[Renew Deal]

124. Left-Libertarian

Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.03

About what I expected

[GreenPartyVoter]

148. Thanks for adding your numbers! :^)

[white_wolf]

128. My score: Economic Left/Right: -8.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

[GreenPartyVoter]

149. Thanks for posting. :^)

[AsahinaKimi]

130. oooohkay..

Someone has sunken my battleship

[GreenPartyVoter]

150. Your poor battleship! LOL

[Spider Jerusalem]

133. -6.88, -6.36

[Egalitarian Thug]

135. Economic Left/Right: -5.88 | Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10 n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

157. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[Jamaal510]

141. LOL is Obama really that far to the right on this test? I sorta don't believe that.

But here are my results:
Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90

[Kaleva]

152. I believe it's because the test is euro-centric

[baldguy]

168. Euro-centric with a libertarian bias.

That's why most "normal" people end up in the bottom half, while most politicians - who "normal" people select - are in the top half.

[Kaleva]

170. It looks like I'm the only person here who answered that's in the top half.

[Tribetime]

142. economic left -7.62....libertarian -3.28 nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

163. Thanks for posting. :^)

[Systematic Chaos]

144. I'm barely hanging on the edge of the table. -9.38, -6.56

Economic Left/Right: -9.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

[GreenPartyVoter]

164. Yeah, you're just clinging there, aren't ya? :^)

[Blue_In_AK]

145. Where I usually am.

Economic. -7.25
Social. -7.69

[GreenPartyVoter]

166. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[immoderate]

151. I'm a -7.88 and a -7.33

But I've mellowed.

--imm

[GreenPartyVoter]

169. :^)

[tama]

153. Social libertarian aka anarchist

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08

[GreenPartyVoter]

172. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[limpyhobbler]

154. Economic Left/Right: -9.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92

Here's what I got... neat thread.

[GreenPartyVoter]

173. Thanks for joining in. I think these things are fun. :^)

[northoftheborder]

156. -7.12 (left) -2.92(libertarian)

I wouldn't have thought Obama would be so far right and authoritarian.

[GreenPartyVoter]

174. My theory is that he is probably more liberal than his presidency has been. There have been times

when the Repubs are affecting how things go by blocking or submitting legislation and so forth.

[LWolf]

158. Far lower left, every time, every year.

Where no members of either major party reside, outside of a few "fringe" Democrats who, while nominally in that lower left quadrant, hover close to the center and still get no respect from their party or a majority of party voters; where most DUers claim to be, even as they gear up to battle for various candidates in the upper right quadrant who do not represent their position.



Edited to add: I notice that our President has moved further to the north east than he was placed in '08.

[GreenPartyVoter]

175. Yeah, even the Socialist and Green aren't down where we are.

[Wounded Bear]

165. I think I've drifted a bit since last time.....

Now:

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

I've been not so far left and a bit less authoritarian in the past.

Probably a reaction to the far right/libertarian crap flying around posing as 'good' policy these days.

[GreenPartyVoter]

178. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^) I keep drifting leftward and downward, probably for

the same reasons you stated.

[a kennedy]

167. Thanks for this.....haven't changed much since the last time I took it....

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

[GreenPartyVoter]

179. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

171. I'm almost Smack dab in the middle of everything... -0.62 Left +0.72 Auth (see pic)

Here is my graph:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-0.62&soc=0.72

[GreenPartyVoter]

180. Thanks for adding your numbers! :^)

[SouthernLiberal]

176. Economic Left/Right: -8.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77

Although I felt that several of the questions really did not fit into the agree/disagree structure. But that's just me.

[GreenPartyVoter]

185. Yeah, there were several questions I had problems with as well.

[Chemisse]

177. Mine's about the same as a few years ago

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

[GreenPartyVoter]

187. Thanks for posting. :^)

[sakabatou]

181. Economic Left: -6.50 Social, Libertarian: -5.28

[GreenPartyVoter]

189. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[phylny]

182. Economic Left/Right: -7.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90 n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

190. Thanks for posting. :^)

[Proles]

184. Economic Left/Right: -7.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.41

But I disagree with were they put Obama, and possibly other politicians on the spectrum.

I mean, he's not *that* far right. Center-right, sure, but I think the measurements are off.

[GreenPartyVoter]

192. I think the numbers would be different if politicians took the quizzes for themselves.

[renie408]

186. I don't like how some of the questions are set up.

The one that sticks in my head is the one about it being a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals. Logically, it IS a waste of time to try to rehabilitate SOME criminals. There are always going to be some people whose issues are too complicated or their behaviors too ingrained to be rehabilitated. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't TRY. Cause you don't know til you try. Even if you figure out after you tried that it didn't have a chance of working.


Economic Left/Right: -6.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.44

[GreenPartyVoter]

194. Yes, my younger son wasn't sure about some. He's 12 and was concerned that how you answer

varies on what scenario you envision at the time, but that if you change the variables you could just as easily support a different answer, like you were saying above.

[R. P. McMurphy]

191. Economic Left/Right: -5.88; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00 n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

199. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[VenusRising]

193. My results...

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44

[GreenPartyVoter]

202. Thank you for sharing your numbers. :^)

[hifiguy]

195. Strongly libertarian left. Where I have always been.

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.87

[GreenPartyVoter]

203. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[Xyzse]

196. As I figured, I am left of Obama

The Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-6.50&soc=-3.38

[GreenPartyVoter]

205. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[Adsos Letter]

197. Economic Left/Right: -5.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.9

Hm...

[GreenPartyVoter]

207. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[TBF]

198. Economic Left/Right: -8.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28 nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

210. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[marmar]

200. I make Gandhi look like a hardcore rightie.

nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

211. Thanks for checking in. :^)

[NS2012]

204. Standing

-8.50 Economic
-6.72 Social

[GreenPartyVoter]

212. Thanks for posting. :^)

[Ya Basta]

206. Economic: -8.00 Social: -8.10

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.10

[GreenPartyVoter]

213. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

208. Hmm.

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

I seem to have become more extreme since the last time I took it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

214. I go further and further southwest each time I take it.

[VOX]

209. Economic Left/Right: -8.25; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

Don't have much margin left on the graph!

[GreenPartyVoter]

215. Yeah, you're running out of room! :^)

[ellisonz]

218. Economic Left/Right: -6.38 - Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95

[GreenPartyVoter]

219. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[GreenPartyVoter]

220. kick for anyone who missed it the first time. :^)

[WinstonSmith4740]

221. Like most of us here...

Lower left. Slightly further than I was last time. -5.88 economic, -5.58 social.

[GreenPartyVoter]

222. Thanks for adding your numbers. :^)

[GreenPartyVoter]

224. That's the candidate selector quiz chart. The quadrant chart is part of the

political compass quiz: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

[tarheelsunc]

225. Which Mitt Romney's views are represented here?

[GreenPartyVoter]

226. Heaven only knows! LOL

[James48]

227. Libertarian lefty

minus- 5.88 minus - 5.18


Lots of us libertarian lefty folks on DU

[GreenPartyVoter]

228. Yes, indeed!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

229. Economic Left/Right: -8.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.77

Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.77

Used to be moreso to the bottom left few years ago I was practically in the corner...

Oh no, I have become more to the right! Augh!

/seppuku

Actually I think it might be that before, I might have said 'strongly disagree' to the compulsory school attendance,
but frankly I had to change that to 'strongly agree'.... Sorry, I don't care how good your mommy is at "homeschooling" you, and go ahead, "homeschool" all you want for all I care... I think attending (an actual school) just prepares ya for society, and dealing with people. And yes, for better or worse.

And yeah, just too many wackaloons do the homeschooling thing, and public schools are bad enough, but please. Let's at least pretend we really care as a society about education. Anywayyyyy.~ ♫♫♪

[GreenPartyVoter]

230. Oh, no. I don't think you need to commit seppuku. LOL