Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Do they explain their methodology anywhere? (Although the results look about right in an eyeball sort of way.)
Posted by: ogged at August 17, 2007 10:47 AMI'm more leftist and libertarian than any of those pretenders! Vote Apostropher '08! Some pot in every chicken!
Posted by: apostropher at August 17, 2007 11:58 AMI am surprised to see Ron Paul on the authoritarian side. He has always seemed to be a firm Libertarian.
(Incidentally, my own profile is spot on Ghandi's)
Ron Paul has a 75% rating from the Christian Coalition, which isn't really known for its libertarian leanings.
Posted by: apostropher at August 17, 2007 12:53 PMMy score:
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26
The Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.26
That's awfully damn close tweedledopey! You my alternate ego????
Posted by: Bryan Price at August 17, 2007 03:28 PMHah - I'm the most leftiest liberaliest of all
Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38
Free babies, sex, and drugs for all! = )
One thing is clear: If you're a libertarian, you should be voting D.
Posted by: lemuel pitkin at August 17, 2007 04:15 PMNo no, That can't be right! :)
Move Ron Paul down and to the left several score points deep into central libertarian terrirtory. Move Kuchinich out of Libertarian and farther to the left. Move Gravel up slightly to the zero axis of libertarian-authoritarian.
Posted by: Jon at August 18, 2007 07:23 AM
4.25 , -4.75
The questions were vague and lacked proper definition and proportionality, and some weren't even political in nature at all.
Posted by: Jon at August 18, 2007 07:48 AMYour political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59
1) There were several questions that definitely needed more options for answers, or a more specific structure to them.
2) I do wish they hadn't used "libertarian" as the name for the opposite of "authoritarian." Most of the so-called libertarians out there are at least as authoritarian as Brownback, and in the same areas.
Posted by: Dr Paisley at August 19, 2007 12:48 AMSomeone just to the left and libertarian of center gets called a fringe candidate?
Hrmph.
I think it would be interesting to compare the political leanings of politicians and the general public. (Assuming this tool is valid.)
Posted by: John Johnson at August 19, 2007 11:50 AMEconomic Left/Right: -8.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85
neat.
Economic Left/Right: -3.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23
I wonder, though, whether this graph is adequate for one of the key issues of today's authoritarianism - taking away rights in order to ensure "safety".
Also, I would have imagined Giuliani as the most authoritarian. I suppose I should be watching the race more closely.
Posted by: Michael at August 20, 2007 09:29 AMApparently, I'm an anarcho-syndicalist. Sweet!
Posted by: Jesus McQueen at August 20, 2007 05:30 PMEconomic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49
Yep, somewhere to the left of Ghandi.
Posted by: Tlazolteotl at August 20, 2007 06:24 PMI see a fairly significant flaw in their methodology, which is that of using a candidates political record as evidence of their true positions.
For candidates who've mostly worked as an executive -- Romney, Giuliani, Huckabee, or Richardson -- their record and their positions may match somewhat closely.
But for candidates who've worked in a legislative body -- all of the Democratic front-runners, for example -- their record necessarily involves advocating legislation that can muster support from a majority of their colleagues, even if that legislation is more centrist than their "true position" on the issue.
By including these consensus-building actions as data for placing political candidates, the results are more error-prone for senators and representatives than they are for governors and mayors.
Posted by: Heath at August 21, 2007 08:25 AMGhandi was quite a conservative as far as sex and birth control goes. He thought that contraception was wrong and that people should only have sex for the purpose of reproduction.
-6.75, -6
Posted by: dAVE at August 21, 2007 06:15 PMAccording to this quiz, i'm a reich winger. Not so. The authors of it can suck my substandard Irish c***.
Posted by: Jon at August 21, 2007 07:37 PMAccording to this quiz, i'm a reich winger. Not so.
No, Jon, you can't deny Science. If this test says you're reich wing, well then you're reich wing. Best learn to live with it.
The authors of it can suck my substandard Irish c***.
You have a clit?
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at August 21, 2007 11:41 PMBelatedly, Jon realizes that he has been trolling himself.
Posted by: Michael at August 22, 2007 04:44 PMI forgot to save my score. Visually, it looks like I'm 1/2 way to Kucinich
I strongly agree with:
legal pornography (but no sexy babies) !
There is now a worrying fusion of information and entertainment.
Who would be in the bottom right quadrant?
Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77
me and the Dali Lama in the hizz-ouse.
