Take The Political Compass Test if you desire

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56




https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-5.25&soc=-8.56





Actual link


https://www.politicalcompass.org/test/


edited to add "if you desire."

[99Forever]

1. My spot:

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18


No surprise to me.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. So we were both at about the same data point as Gandhi./NT

[99Forever]

7. Fascinating.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. And Mandela./NT

[99Forever]

10. Not bad company to be in.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. This is interesting

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UjFw4FLcuDg/U6NbvzSpopI/AAAAAAAABgU/86VnW86FUTQ/s1600/2016+race.png

[bigwillq]

3. Me:

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=-7.38&soc=-5.54

[cali]

4. silly.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Why is the test silly?/NT

[LWolf]

6. I've done so many times.

I like that it's based on record, not just speeches.

I find it to be more accurate than most designed in the U.S..

I always fall in the lower left quadrant:

Economic Left/Right: -8.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Economic Left/Right: -8.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. This is interesting

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UjFw4FLcuDg/U6NbvzSpopI/AAAAAAAABgU/86VnW86FUTQ/s1600/2016+race.png

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. I suppose. I voted for Jull Stein in 2012.

And, I am a Socialist.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Everybody who has taken the test so far is to the left of the Socialist parties./NT

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Good.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. I suspect that a lot of so called centrist politicians if they took the test...

I suspect that a lot of so called centrist Democratic politicians, not all by any means, if they took the test that their answers would make them considerably more left than the policies they ostensibly propose and support...


I forgot which Beach Boy it was but he had a renaissance in popularity in the late 80s /early 90s...On the liner notes of the cd I bought he wrote that he tries to make the music he wants within the realm of market reality.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Political expediencey and just plain hypocrisy explains that.

Fortunately, I don't feel compelled to check the polls or answer to corporate donors to decide my vote.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. Your vote is something else.

But if you were a candidate and the choice was trimming your positions or losing than it becomes a harder decision.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. I've voted in 23 federal elections. My vote has never decided the outcome of any of them.

So, I've decided to stop injuring my nose if the Democrat strays too far to the right.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

30. I am not one of the "you must vote as I say" brigade.

All I am saying is that politicians carry different burdens than us. They have the burden of actually getting elected and getting votes from people that don't think like they really do.


Kind of like the Beach Boy I alluded to. He can make all the music he wants but it isn't going to do him any good if nobody wants to listen to it.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

37. As I said, political expediency and hypocrisy explains that.

I've never believed that politicians don't lie, procrastinate, triangulate, pander, obfuscate, and indulge in truthiness, etc, in order to get elected. It goes with the job and I accept that.

But, sometimes they go too far. I don't mind if they vote to name bridges after Ronald Reagan or go to church when they're atheists or eat Saurkraut in German neighborhood and bagels in Jewish neighborhoods while yearning for Chinese food. I don't even mind if the cheat on their spouses while regaling us with their love for family values.

But, when they start collaborating with Republicans, voting for wars they know are they know are unnecessary, eagerly seek out money from plutocrats, vote for things like "welfare reform", etc, then rely on "not as bad" to get our votes, I get off the train.

In my state there is no registration by party since (IIRC) 2008. I registered as Democrat when I moved here in 1993 but officially I'm like all Washingtonians an Independent. Which is fine by me because I've never been wedded to the party since I first registered in 1965.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." --Thomas Jefferson

[okaawhatever]

19. Then why are you here on DU? Isn't there a Socialist/Green Underground where people advance those

parties?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

21. Because I'm a Democrat. How about you?

We also have Catholics, Vegetarians, Gays, Chevy owners, Bird Watchers, here.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. Tierra can believe what he wants...

The only rule is you can not call for the defeat of Democrats once the general election season starts.

[okaawhatever]

24. No, that's not the only rule. This site is to support Democrats and the Democratic party. If an

individual doesn't vote for Democrats they are not welcome here.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. If that's the rule and it is strictly enforced there will be five of us posting./NT

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

38. I do vote for Democrats.

I voted for Democrats in 2012. And, for a Green.

DU, Polls, the Democratic Party, The Green Party, and everyone else, don't control my vote, I do.

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. I seem to drift farther left every time I take this.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=-8.5&soc=-2.05

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. I believe I started, several years ago, from a -3 and -5 to where I am now.

What probably changed is the intensity of my responses.

[okaawhatever]

16. Done:

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92

[Dem2]

23. Similar to many here...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-6.38&soc=-5.79

[brooklynite]

29. Funny -- I thought all 1%ers were still conservatives...

https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-4.13&soc=-5.95

[awoke_in_2003]

31. They are coming for me soon...

Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.26


https://www.politicalcompass.org/yourpoliticalcompass?ec=-8.13&soc=-8.26

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. You are almost off the chart.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. At one time I thought I was a republican...

but then I started really thinking and paying attention to issues. Funny what a little thinking and education can do for you.

[BainsBane]

33. Economic Left/Right: -9.5 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92

I'm surprised I ranked so highly on the libertarian side.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=-9.5&soc=-6.92

[Lyric]

34. Economic Left/Right: -8.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

[ms liberty]

35. -9.25/-7.49. Pretty accurate.

[ileus]

39. Authoritarian....up their ass.

[Lancero]

40. Meh, pretty close to the last few times I took the test.

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[GliderGuider]

41. -9.75, -10.41. I didn't know a score below -10 was possible...

[hrmjustin]

42. my results.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-7.38&soc=-7.49

Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

[F4lconF16]

43. ...

Economic Left/Right: -10.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.82

[NutmegYankee]

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

https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-8.25&soc=-7.44

[Rochester]

46. Economic: -5.88, Social -1.23

[Populist_Prole]

47. Mine

[link:https://www.politicalcompass.org/chart?ec=-3.13&soc=-3.74|

I think my "left" was softened somewhat by not choosing "strongly" in some cases.

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[Omnith]

48. Nearly in the middle

Economic 1.0
Social 0.41