So I took this quiz

[Turbineguy]

http://www.people-press.org/political-party-quiz/

It tells you where you fit into the political spectrum, left to right. Around here, it's not new. I end up "very liberal". This is compared to others who take the test. Still it's disturbing. I was raised in Europe as a conservative monarchist. I read DU nearly every day and there are a lot of people way more liberal than I. They would be off the left scale in this test.

Of course, a conservative in these times is somebody out to destroy stuff, not to "conserve" it.

[WCGreen]

1. Same here....

There was a smidgen patch f blue between where I stood and the most liberal end...

[arely staircase]

2. yeah I was way to the left of a liberal democrat

But am probably center left on DU

[spin]

3. I end up as a "Liberal Democrat." ...

Not really all that surprising as I come from a long line of Democrats.

[Blanket Statements]

4. I only got between liberal democrat and average democrat

Explains a lot

[Agschmid]

6. Indeed.

[arely staircase]

8. fascist nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

13. You got between Flagged for Review and Pizza.

[idwiyo]

26. You win this thread!

[libodem]

5. Almost off the chart very liberal Democrat

That'd be me.

[Blue Idaho]

7. If I was any further left

I would be off the chart...

[Agschmid]

9. This is me...

[lob1]

11. Your test looks exactly like mine, placement-wise.

[Prophet 451]

12. Mine too

[Bettie]

20. That's pretty much where I was too

And I don't really feel like I'm all that far left. I've always seen myself as fairly moderate, though my husband informs me I've never been anything other than a hard leftie.

I guess it shows how far to the right the dialog has been pushed.

[femmocrat]

35. Very liberal.

Almost the whole way to the left. But I already knew that.

[LiberalElite]

10. I'm "very liberal" but

I don't know about this quiz - it doesn't show the Tea Party as off the chart. There's still some red to the right of it.

[jeff47]

18. Well, most of the teabaggers aren't calling for death camps yet, so they've got some room (nt)

[Turbineguy]

34. Leaving room

for Hitler's ghost.

[Zorra]

14. Very liberal. I think they extended the line a bit to the left to fit me in. nt

[dgauss]

15. I'm a 50 year old white male also way over to the left.

According to that graph, that puts me closest to the 18-29 year old black female demographic. Never thought of it like that before.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I'm very liberal,

about an eighth of an inch from the left edge (on the iPad screen). I'm way to the left of all the demographics.

[donco]

17. I,ma bit to

I,ma bit to the left of the average Dem.

[jeff47]

19. There's only a few blue pixels left of me.

And I would like complain about one of their questions.

"Never Doubt the existence of God" - Agree moves you right. Disagree moves you left. First, being religious shouldn't automatically move one right. Second, plenty of us filthy atheists have no doubts about the non-existence of God, yet saying so on this quiz moves us right.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

21. I'm as far as very liberal as the spectrum goes. nt

[Enthusiast]

22. This reveals that I am a Liberal Democrat. Duh.

But I do not like the poll. It is very limited in scope.

[Javaman]

23. I was so far to the left I just about fell off. nt

[Xyzse]

24. This is the first Party Quiz that I ended up being a Liberal Democrat

Then again, it just doesn't have enough nuance to it. Even when my answers are all in the "Mostly" agree or disagree.

[Egalitarian Thug]

25. They call me a liberal Democrat, but I'm much closer to the left limit

of the scale than I am to the Liberal Democrat marker. And I'm much closer to the end of the left than the Teahaddists are to the right.

Not a very likely representation of reality.

[Proud Public Servant]

27. A more complex quiz

can be found on Political Compass: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Among other things, it plots affiliation on an x/y economic/social axis, which is more relevant to Western politics than a simple spectrum. Enjoy!

[Squinch]

31. I am to the left of the Dalai Lama. I feel good about that.

[truebluegreen]

32. +100

Much better, and more accurate results.

Also very instructive to see where you stand visavis Our Leaders (I do wish they would include past presidents like FDR, Eisenhower, Nixon--that would really be telling).

[Squinch]

28. I am at the farthest left point.

Can't imagine what you'd have to answer to be a moderate Democrat.

[etherealtruth]

29. all the way to the left/ very liberal n/t

[baldguy]

30. Mine

Of course, there are people here on DU who call me a fascist.

[LWolf]

33. Overall: "very liberal."

I'm at the edge of the left on the continuum for "overall, and "economic issues." I'm still on the left end in dark blue on social issues, but am about an 8th of an inch further from the edge.

I'm much farther to the left than any demographic group.

This is not a surprise.

Where do you fall on the political compass? I always end up somewhere to the left and south of Gandhi.