Left Wing or Right Wing? Take Pop Quiz in OP!

[Famine]

The very bottom is personal freedom, the very top is total governmental control over the individual, with decreasing freedoms and increasing legislation as you ascend the chart.

The very right is financial freedom and free marketeering, while the very left is total governmental control over finances, production, manufacturing and distribution, with decreasing freedoms and increasing legislation as you head left on the chart.


Your position - a bit bottom of centre and a bit left of centre - means you prefer governmental control over what you see as vital services, along with income and corporation taxes, while you think personal freedoms should be curtailed somewhat by regulation.

 

[Tesla]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.87

For a non american what does it mean?

For a closer to home comparison:

Anyway, here's me:

Much further right than when I took it sometime last year.

 

[Grayfox]

Wait.

We have a Democratic party in Oz?

 

[Tesla]

I think they go by the Liberal Democrats. Pretty sure they got a couple of seats in the senate too.

 

[Grayfox]

Libs and nationals are the same thing so there are 3 versions of the liberal party?

No wonder they won.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.87

For a non american what does it mean?

It means if you moved to America you'd probably be a Democrat..but occasionally have a real free thinking, free enterprise, let the people make up their own mind kind of idea and probably be shunned by other Democrats as having odd Republican tendencies.

 

[Grayfox]

If I lived in the US.

A few things would happen.

1: No one would understand what I am saying
2: I'd get into some roadrage fights
3: I would not even bother voting(heck I bearly do it here)
4: I will have trouble with your inefficent 4 way stop intersections.

 

[Famine]

It means if you moved to America you'd probably be a Democrat..but occasionally have a real free thinking, free enterprise, let the people make up their own mind kind of idea and probably be shunned by other Democrats as having odd Republican tendencies.

Actually he's way left and south of the Democrats - both Democrats and Republicans occupy that inconsistency-pandering blue quadrant, with the Republicans slighty further right and up of the Democrats.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Not quite sure how to interpret this, but gave it a shot.

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36

 

[niky]

You believe people should have the moral freedom to sign over all their worldly possessions to the government?

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Erm.. No. If I remember my history right, we kicked those guys out in 1917..

 

[Liquid]

Nationalist socialism... It'll never catch on.

Today they prefer the term National "Democracy" instead.

 

[Sanji Himura]

Here's mine:

I think I am the most center out of anyone.

EDIT: While I am at it, can I make a push for this thread to get pinned? It would be a good idea to have everyone's political ideologies on hand when discussing a subject.

 

[Keef]

Not quite sure how to interpret this, but gave it a shot. Economic Left/Right: -7.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36

The x-axis measures economic freedom, with the far left being total government control over economics and the far right being total market freedom. The y-axis measures personal freedom, with the top being total authoritarian government control over your personal life and the bottom being total freedom of choice in your personal life.

What your graph shows is that you heavily value government control over economics which would be a socialist position. It also shows that you value slightly more personal freedom of choice than government control over personal lives.

Not to be pedantic but this is actually a fairly stereotypically mainland European graph, especially places like Spain, France or Scandinavia. I kinda think your x-axis is skewed further left than it should be because that's pretty excessive. Did you make a lot of "strongly agree/disagree" answers?

 

[Zona]

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.13

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

The x-axis measures economic freedom, with the far left being total government control over economics and the far right being total market freedom. The y-axis measures personal freedom, with the top being total authoritarian government control over your personal life and the bottom being total freedom of choice in your personal life.

What your graph shows is that you heavily value government control over economics which would be a socialist position. It also shows that you value slightly more personal freedom of choice than government control over personal lives.

Not to be pedantic but this is actually a fairly stereotypically mainland European graph, especially places like Spain, France or Scandinavia. I kinda think your x-axis is skewed further left than it should be because that's pretty excessive. Did you make a lot of "strongly agree/disagree" answers?

Indeed I did. I do have strong opinions about certain things as some might've noticed in the past..

 

[mattythedog]

This is me:

I guess that's kind of what I was expecting, though I'd consider myself a bit more to the right that what I got.

 

[BHRxRacer]

I did this test 7 years ago and I was almost dead center. Now I'm far left and a little towards libertarian -.-

posted this somewhere else accidentally.

 

[Akira AC]

 

[Bopop4]

Crap, I'm almost of of those hippies.

 

[Tornado]

I'm too lazy to take one of these again, so I'll link one (which was probably a different test since the results graph looks different) I did a little over a year ago.

 

[BHRxRacer]

Famine where's you score?

 

[Keef]

Famine's score is in the America quadrant.

 

[Famine]

Yeah, I'm usually somewhere around 4.5/-4.5 to 5/-5 down in the purple sector. The best sector because it's purple.

 

[dr_slump]

Me a communist? Daaaaaaaamn!


Something must've went wrong, terribly wrong...

 

[niky]

Yeah, I'm usually somewhere around 4.5/-4.5 to 5/-5 down in the purple sector. The best sector because it's purple.

Sputter... (realizes what color-codes are being used in the chart...) Wait... why is my sector green? Are they reading our MINDS?!?

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I find many of the questions to be double-edged. For example, if I say I strongly agree that "There is a worrying fusion of information and entertainment", it doesn't mean that I'm for the regulation of the info-tainment industry. Or if I say I don't believe that 'what's good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us." that doesn't mean I think corporations should not be allowed their success.

Weird, take it again, remove my middling answers (but answer in the same direction) and I get this:

Of course... I'd rather be this:

But that's impossible with such a loaded quiz.

 

[Joel]

I may have said before, I think the problem is that most people just vote and think laws should be based on how they feel. Most people won't say what you did, they'd say that we need to redistribute their profits for the good of society. Same thing with the corporations should only answer to their shareholders question, I believe that corporations should try to act in a socially responsible way, but that doesn't mean I think it should be the law.

I would say there's less of a worrying fusion of information and entertainment as there's a worrying disconnect between feelings and thoughts.

 

[dr_slump]

Weird, take it again, remove my middling answers (but answer in the same direction) and I get this:

Of course... I'd rather be this:

But that's impossible with such a loaded quiz.

Fixed

 

[niky]

Thanks. Couldn't see if it was right or not, my internet connection is terrible today.

 

[Wiegert]

My results I posted in the Britain Thread last April aren't far off.