Poll: Which quadrant did you end up in?

RED - Authoritarian, Left
4 6.2%
GREEN - Libertarian, Left
49 75.4%
PURPLE - Libertarian, Right
8 12.3%
BLUE - Authoritarian, Right
4 6.2%

Status: Voting has ended

65 Total Votes

Poll Where do you stand politically? (Now with poll) (Read 3962 times)

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Economic Left/Right: 1.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.49



Pretty much near the middle. A government should do whatever it needs to protect human life and make living comfortable.  Military advances support the economy and industry but aggressive expansion degrades moral and harms the environment.  The market should be regulated but corporations should be allowed the freedom to conduct their business in a respectable manner so long as it doesn't bring shame to the country they represent blah blah blah political views
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Funny, I think I did the exact same test in school one time. Think I was a centrist the 1st time and more of a left leaning libertarian the 2nd time.



No suprise there.
Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 01:28:56 am by Arcan
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me (-3.12, -2.97)

i'm ignorant in politics and stuff though and guessed around on some :(
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I guess I'm about a Ralph Nader, then.
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I dont really align myself with any sort of political ideology, so the fact that I am a left leaning guy libertarian tendencies means nothing to me. I generally go about things with a common sense approach.

For example, I would rather see a child adopted by a loving and stable homosexual couple than have to live through the horrors of the foster care system. I dont see how marijuana is any different than alcohol, people use them for the EXACT same reasons. I want to know what the difference between the two substances really is in the eyes of the government, especially taking into account alcohol has never been considered medicinal ever unless you count as an anesthetic or an antibacterial agent as marijuana has been and alcohol is responsible for thousands of deaths every year where marijuana has been responsible for... well lets go out on a limb (while taking a page out of Bill Hicks's book) and say its a negligible amount.

So yeah, I guess I see how my feelings on other things (those were just two simple examples) fit into that ideology, but the fact of the matter is I operate on a 'HEY! What is going to make the lives of people everywhere better than worse?' basis. As far as school attendence and seatbelts and shit are concerned, however, if you don't want to comply thats your fucking problem man, I'm not cool with humankind being above natural selection as we currently are kinda teetering on the edge of as it is. Granted I'm not saying that human evolution is slowing or stagnating, actually the research shows human evolution increasing in rate (duh higher population -> more mutations -> faster evolution. a child could figure this out). But the things that we are going to great lengths to make sure the weak, the stupid and the ill survive, when they really shouldn't just infuriate me. So I guess that I am kind of a ruthless bastard, but hey, if you aren't going to help yourself, why should I help you?

yeah basically I have lots of thoughts running around in my head but it seems like I dont fall too far off the compass from everyone else so I guess its all good in the end anyway. I dont really think that theres going to be any major social/political change in this country any time soon so getting all fired up about shit is pretty much pointless.
Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 02:32:31 am by Wash Cycle
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As far as school attendence and seatbelts and shit are concerned, however, if you don't want to comply thats your fucking problem man, I'm not cool with humankind being above natural selection as we currently are kinda teetering on the edge of as it is. Granted I'm not saying that human evolution is slowing or stagnating, actually the research shows human evolution increasing in rate (duh higher population -> more mutations -> faster evolution. a child could figure this out). But the things that we are going to great lengths to make sure the weak, the stupid and the ill survive, when they really shouldn't just infuriate me. So I guess that I am kind of a ruthless bastard, but hey, if you aren't going to help yourself, why should I help you?

ahahahahahha. please don't tell me you advocate eugenics too
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ahahahahahha. please don't tell me you advocate eugenics too
no thats just stupid

I just think that if people arent willing to better themselves then why waste time trying to force them? if they dont get it then they dont get it*. too bad. if they died it would be better for the rest of us. in today's world, one less mouth to feed isn't hurting anything honestly (other than that human life obviously, but it probably wasnt worth much anyway and the energy that would have been expended on their behalf is better put to use doing something more productive)

*I can forsee an argument about maturity, but honestly thats a trait that should be selected for and for whatever reason to our detriment as a species we have transcended this
Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 03:16:46 am by Wash Cycle
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Even though I ended up in the green quadrant, I feel myself on either side of the economic ideological balance, so that'd be either green or purpal so I dont feel like answering the poll.
I'm mostly centripetal anyway
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this poll is world renowned in many political science circles for being a piece of shit you know
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how the hell did this happen

I feel like a twat for doing a personality test
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It seems I'm a little with Jeff. Oh god, I'm going to be ostracized, aren't I?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=2.25&soc=-1.18

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Hah, I love how left-wing authoritarians are associated with RED.
Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 04:27:53 am by Juris
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Too much clicking. I'll do this when I get home from work. I once too a different test, though, and this was the result:
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For a sec there I thought that was supposed to be the same compass as the one we were using. Wrote a commie joke, then saw your spoiler, saw Clinton there, proceeded to laugh ass off, then double-checked to see if it was the right cell. Damn.
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Personally I feel that I'd probably be on the purple more then green. I think this mainly because I didn't feel very strongly at all about some of the questions, as in my answer should not have weighed much at all, then other questions I felt should heavily affect my score.  Essentially, I believe that this would be more accurate:

Note: I voted GREEN, because that is where I ended up.
Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 07:06:45 am by warpped655
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GW more like Libertarian central. Also I think the example graph seems wrong, Thatcher is in reality much closer to Hitler...
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I got green (just half a square left of David Kucinich) like most of you, which is pretty odd.

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