Lotsa "Curse you, moderates!" and "Darned leftist fringers!" going around lately. So come in here &

[GreenPartyVoter]

state which you are, BUT you also have to post your political compass scores so we have some sort of notion of what you mean by liberal or moderate. :) (It will be interesting to see who claims a label but disagrees with their spot on the compass.)

http://politicalcompass.org/

I am a liberal and my scores are:

Economic Left/Right: -9.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.03

I have moved to the southwest quite a bit over the years. :)

[StarfarerBill]

1. I did my PC a while ago:

Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.41

The only way it might have changed is more to the lower left. ;)

[Warpy]

2. I'm falling off the southwest edge

but everybody here knew that, right?

Liberals have been the only political group to run the economy of this country so that it benefited the largest group of people. The rich got richer, albeit slowly, if they paid even minimal attention and didn't squander everything on a gold plated lifestyle. Workers had the best deal they've ever gotten. The economy prospered, money moving and working at all levels with restrictions on gamblers in banks and brokerages.

I don't see how anyone can be a conservative these days. Their dogma has been tried for 30 years and we have wealth concentration, depressed wages, one bubble market after another, fewer jobs to go around, and we've lost our manufacturing base. Conservative dogma has failed everyone. The rich are in the end game now, no more easy money to be made. They pretty much have all they can get without reinstituting slavery, something they don't want to do because they don't want to have to care for the rest of us that much and capital investment would force them to.

Conservative Democrats are just too damned stubborn to admit they've been wrong about anything and conservative Republicans have gone just plain nuts.

Given the heavy handed corporate control of the media in this country preventing education, I really can't see any way out of this soon. However, the future, if we're to have one, lies with the left. Liberals knew how to do things. Conservatives do not.

[bertman]

12. Warpy, that was the essence of insightful eloquence. Thank you.

[Arkana]

3. Hmmm...

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10

I gather this will make me less of a lefty than is tolerable.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Nah. That's about where I was several years ago, and no one ever called me a moderate. :^) The

trouble is, even though we have the compass, you could have several people with the same scores who all are still pretty different. Some may be more lenient/stricter on topic X than topic Y and so forth. Short of screen-capping our entire tests to share with everyone it's still a bit vague. :)

[ixion]

4. I'm a left-leaning libertarian...as my test shows

it's been pretty consistent. I'm in the same quadrant as Ghandi, and that works for me. :)

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-2.50&soc=-7.59

[scheming daemons]

5. Economic: -4.12... Social: -5.49

Right in the center of the lower left.

[Odin2005]

7. Mine:

Economic Left/Right: -6.53
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.63

[tblue]

8. Here ya go...

Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00

[Old Codger]

9. ok

Economic Left/Right: -6.62

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54

[MisterP]

10. green Catholic Western Marxist

but I reject the political compass as falsely endorsing the ideas of 1) a continuum of beliefs, making "centrist" a legitimate choice with a cohesive ideology (of "balance" between L and R) and 2) a separate libertarian-authoritarian axis (note that the distribution is strongly diagonal). Someone holding half Marxist and half conformist Protestant, or half populist anti-monopolist and half gold-bricks-and-shotguns-in-the-basement, or half welfare-bashing and half civil liberties, wouldn't be "moderate" but self-contradictory. The site is also pretty secretive about how it grades.

to me, on every issue there are discrete (Marxist, Democratic Socialist, Stalinist, sharia Islamist, socialist Islamist, Randroid, libertarian, anarchist, individualist conservative, religious conservative, conformist conservative) views: these can be totted up onto a radar chart

I'm -9.38:-7.54--ridiculous

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. The radar chart is cool, but blows my mind. I can't comprehend it. LOL

[rpannier]

11. MIne

Economic -6.75 (Left)
Social - 5.18 (Libertarian)

[Tailormyst]

13. Pretty liberal

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.10

[bullwinkle428]

15. Economic Left/Right: -6.75...Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

I'm sure there's a segment here happily willing to label me as a "leftbagger"! ;)

[TornadoTN]

16. Economic Left/Right: -7.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44

[tekisui]

17. I am futher southwest than a couple of years ago.

Economic Left/Right: -7.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.62&soc=-7.59

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Did the questions change or did we change?? Because the same thing has happened to me.

[tekisui]

21. Not sure.

Is there a difference?

If the scale changed and we stayed the same, we didn't move.

If the scale stayed the same and we moved, was there a reason?

Either way, I would say we are staying true.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. I feel pretty sure at least a few of the questions are different now. But yeah, we probably

haven't changed all that much. :)

[treestar]

18. Me

Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56

In the lower left near the Dalai Lama

[bertman]

20. west southwest. -8.92/-4.97 Whatever that means.

I think of myself as a "radical businessman".

B-)

[Luminous Animal]

22. My political philosophy; an anarcho-sydicalist/libertarian socialist

Economic Left/Right: -9.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.74

[donco6]

23. Liberal and I think it's about right.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.87

[Sebastian Doyle]

25. I don't remember my previous score, but from memory I'm further left on the graph

And damn proud of it!

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. It seems several us are further left than before on this graph.

[csziggy]

26. Gee, I used to be more moderate...

Economic Left/Right: -7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

[RedCloud]

27. Move over Ghandi!

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.26


I almost squeezed into the corner there!

[coti]

28. My results:

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51

Sounds about right to me.

[Stinky The Clown]

29. I call myself a Liberal. I am between Bartok and Prokofiev.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. -8.8/-8.92 Anarchist

[tammywammy]

32. Economic Left/Right: -3.50; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21 n/t

[Kaleva]

33. Economic Left/Right: 0.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.28

[dana_b]

34. liberal -9.75, -8.10

[Raineyb]

35. Economic Left/Right: -8.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26 n/t

[TexasObserver]

36. Economic Left/Right: -5.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

I'm always in the -5x5 to -6x6 southwest quadrant.

[Jennicut]

37. Economic: -7.62. Social: -4.82

I swear DU is making me MORE liberal!