Political Compass Thread

[Nym90]

Mine is in my sig. I moderated slightly on the economic, but went a little left on the social. Still a populist leaning liberal.

[Nym90]

Economic Left/Right: 7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

This may shock some of you, but my economic score was the exact opposite in March of this year. 0_o

My social score hasn't changed a bit.

Wow. So you basically used to be me, until March. :-)

[Nym90]

Economic Left/Right: 7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

This may shock some of you, but my economic score was the exact opposite in March of this year. 0_o

My social score hasn't changed a bit.

Wow. So you basically used to be me, until March. :-)

Not really. I think the thing kinda scores you towards the left, intentionally or not. You see very few 10s in the right side, but many on the left. Plus there is the fact that some of the questions just plain suck. In reality I was only moderate-left economically.

True, but your number would have been close to mine, so unless the test was biasing our scores in opposite directions, we were pretty similar.

I'm not a radical leftist on economics; I support capitalism, but with regulations. I feel that there are times when the free market fails, and then government should step in to fill in the gaps. I also feel that improving the efficiency and effectiveness of government programs is very important. I support any and all efforts to reduce waste and to apply rational, logical processes to analyze the expenditure of all government funds, taking everything into account.

At the same time, I feel that government can improve the market by doing many things that benefit everyone that corporations wouldn't have the money to do on their own, or that wouldn't be willing to take the risk to do. Government can be an active partner in helping to improve conditions for businesses. I support a free market of ideas in which those who have the best ideas and work the hardest succeed. I don't support government helping people who aren't trying to help themselves; I support promoting responsibility.

[Nym90]

Mine is in my sig.

[Nym90]

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08

Why the blue avatar, Alcon? You got the blues or something?

It just looks better, really.

You could make your own avatar with Paint or some such, and put it in your signature. Just take that avatar, and change the R to D.

[Nym90]

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.46

I've become a little more libertarian on both economics and social, though more economically than socially.

[Nym90]

I took it again.

Economic Left/Right: -4.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.46

[Nym90]

-0.62, -0.62

A strong move to the right. I think its because I went from "Agree" to "Strongly Agree" on some of them, and the same with "Disagree" to "Strongly Disagree".

Yeah, same here. It depends on what mood I'm in, whether I use that "strongly" qualifier or not. Hence my score tend to vary a bit, even though my actual positions don't really change.

[Nym90]

I took it again recently, new score is in my sig.

[Nym90]

I moved slightly to the middle, as my new scores in my sig indicate.

[Nym90]

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64

[Nym90]

Economic Left/Right: 1.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.56

Economic Left/Right: 1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

Economic Left/Right: 2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92

Economic Left/Right: 3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87

Economic Left/Right: 4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67

Hmm.

Will you be donning a yellow avatar soon?

[Nym90]

I moved a tad to the middle.

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33