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[minionofmidas]

http://www.ozpolitics.info/guide/fun/politics-test/#outlook

What does that mean?

Combination of both.

Bad test, but here are my results.

[minionofmidas]

http://www.electoralcompass.com/



Unsurprising.

Nice test. I ended up almost directly left (and just a teeniest bit below) Obama.

[minionofmidas]

I think I've taken this before, years ago.

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Right.

Individual vs Social

You scored 78 out of 100 on a scale of Individual vs Social. This means that politically you are more likely to value the need for group actions and group benefit over individual enterprise and benefit.

    * 92% of test takers were more individual than you.
    * 7% of test takers were more social than you.

Theist vs Materialist

You scored 41 out of 100 on a scale of Theist vs Materialist. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to believe that religion and spirituality are superstitions that should not inform political debate.

    * 22% of test takers were more theist than you.
    * 76% of test takers were more materialist than you.

Big Government vs Small Government

You scored 68 out of 100 on a scale of Big Government vs Small Government. This means that politically you are more likely to believe that government should keep out of legislating social policies, leaving such decisions to individuals.

    * 72% of test takers were more big government than you.
    * 26% of test takers were more small government than you.

Nationalist vs Internationalist

You scored 69 out of 100 on a scale of Nationalist vs Internationalist. This means that politically you are more likely to favour international bodies over national ones.

    * 72% of test takers were more nationalist than you.
    * 26% of test takers were more internationalist than you.

Protectionist vs Free Trader

You scored 40 out of 100 on a scale of Protectionist vs Free Trader. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to favour free trade over protectionist policies.

    * 28% of test takers were more protectionist than you.
    * 71% of test takers were more pro free trade than you.

Absolutist vs Non-Absolutist

You scored 72 out of 100 on a scale of Absolutist vs Non Absolutist. This means that politically you are less likely to believe that there is an absolute truth that may guide your ideological beliefs.

    * 93% of test takers were more absolutist than you.
    * 5% of test takers were more non-absolutist than you.

Controlled Market vs Liberal Market

You scored 28 out of 100 on a scale of Controlled Market vs Liberal Market. This means that politically you are more likely to believe that there is need for government regulation of industry.

    * 29% of test takers were more controlled market thinkers than you.
    * 69% of test takers were more liberal market thinkers than you.

Marxist vs Non-Marxist

You scored 55 out of 100 on a scale of Marxist vs Non-Marxist. This means that politically you are neither more nor less likely to follow the philosophies of Marx.

    * 70% of test takers were more Marxist than you.
    * 28% of test takers were more non-Marxist than you.

[/quote]No, actually, break it down like that and except for the first one, it sounds alright.

[minionofmidas]

You are a left social libertarian.
Left: 6.72, Libertarian: 5.65
Foreign: -8.73, Culture: -8.42


Some oddly phrased questions that throw my answers off, but a decent test overall.

[minionofmidas]

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-direction-of-the-country-test

That was a pretty decent test.

Groovy results, too:

"Age of Aquarius

8 traditional, 10 liberties, -6 capitalist, -4 isolationist and 8 populist!

This country is such a drag, man. Leaders who think they can tell us what to do, police hassling everybody, the endless chase after material things that can never make you happy. We choose our happiness, dig, and the direction you choose is one of universal freedom, cooperation and human rights. We don't need the Man to tell us what to do. We can just Be. And let the world Be with us. Peace.

Compared to other takers

    * 97/100 You scored 8 on traditional, higher than 97% of your peers.
    * 61/100 You scored 10 on liberties, higher than 61% of your peers.
    * 18/100 You scored -6 on capitalist, higher than 18% of your peers.
    * 3/100 You scored -4 on isolationist, higher than 3% of your peers.
    * 51/100 You scored 8 on populist, higher than 51% of your peers."

[minionofmidas]

1) Should abortion be legal if the mother's life is not in danger and the mother is over 18 years of age?
I don't see what the mother's age has to do with the question... nor why the fetus' age is not mentioned in the question at all. Seems a relatively artificial place to draw the line between a pro-life and a pro-choice position (and one that forced me to vote "maybe").

Should the US have a hand in helping to create Democratic governments?
Define "have a hand", please. Also, define "create", and who decides what's "democratic", anyways?

9) Should the government financially assist corporations under any circumstances?
I suppose this means "are there any conditions in which the government should financially assist an individual corporation"? (There is a different take - understanding "any" as "all" - but it doesn't really make sense.) Seen in that light, who would vote no?

10) Should a flat tax be implemented? (Same tax for all)
It's not the "same tax", it's the same income tax rate.

18) Should the government impose stricter standards on emissions created by automobiles and factories?    
No. Except perhaps closing some loopholes (not sufficiently knowledgeable on that). But it certainly should have stricter rules on what happens when you don't abide by them.

19) Should the government have restrictions on International free trade?
Strange wording issue again.

For all that, I got a hilariously partisan result:

[minionofmidas]

You Scored as Anarcho-Communist

Anarcho-communists seek to build a society based upon a decentralised federation of autonomous communes and a moneyless 'gift economy'. The movement first emerged in the late 19th century and has had a large influence particularly in Spain, Italy and Russia. Key thikers include Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta.

Anarcho-Communist    
   85%
Anarcho-Primitivist    
   75%
Christian Anarchist    
   50%
Anarcha-Feminist    
   45%
Anarcho-Syndicalist    
   30%
Anarcho-Capitalist    
   15%


32 on the Insaniac Purity Test.


Political Spectrum: You are a left social libertarian.
Left: 5.41, Libertarian: 5.42. Much the same territory as the Compass or the Matrix, then. Unsurprisingly. -8.08 Non-Interventionist and -8.29 Cultural Liberal, though.



Socialist?

You scored 93 Equality, 57 Liberty, and 21 Stability!
You are a bit difficult to classify. You may well be a Socialist. Your greater than average commitment to equality may make you more of a Utopian Socialist. On the other hand your secondary commitment to liberty may make you a Progressive.
Your Analysis (Vertical line = Average)

      Equality Distribution

      You scored 93% on Equality, higher than 94% of your peers.

      Liberty Distribution

      You scored 57% on Liberty, higher than 25% of your peers.

      Stability Distribution

      You scored 21% on Stability, higher than 6% of your peers.

[minionofmidas]

The questions are very reasonably well put, but it's obvious from the result options that the person who made it has no clue what the Democratic Party is like.

A score of Prog 11, Social Capitalist 9 (he falls into the opposite error of the BPQ test here. That calls anybody not a Corporate Stooge a "Socialist". This one avoids the word like the plague), Libertarian 2, Pacifist 2 may make a "Hardcore Democrat", but it's just as likely to make a disaffected leftist. And it certainly doesn't make anybody remotely like Bill Clinton and John F Kennedy, two of the three people pictured (Jimmy Carter is somewhat more reasonable... or would be if it wasn't for the Progressive score, anyhow. Especially given that the picture shows the President Jimmy Carter, not the current Jimmy Carter.)

(Yes, that was my result.)

[minionofmidas]

Strange....

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-issues-test

Lol. This one was fun.

Strange Democrat

You scored 76% economically responsible, 70% self-destructively free and 65% expressively free.

You want to control the marketplace, but not people... ideological conflicts are inevitable, and the government shouldn't silence them.

Economy (liberal): The economy is a raging force that must be controlled or we will be swept away. We have to remember that it is founded on greed, and unchecked greed is a recipe for disaster. Rigid rules must be in place to limit the powerful and prevent tragedies from slipping through the cracks.

Personal Freedom (liberal): If it only involves me, what right does anyone have to tell me no? A person should be allowed to be as stupid and harmful to themselves as they want, and letting the government go in, imposing majority morality, is dangerously tyrannical.

Expressive Freedom (liberal): This is a free country, isn't it? Why should my voice be silenced, just because you don' t like what it has to say? If I can do it in private, I can do it in public. You're always free to leave. Hampering a person's right to free expression is dangerously tyrannical.

Your Analysis (Vertical line = Average)


      You scored 76% on Economic, higher than 85% of your peers.
    *

      Self Freedom Distribution

      You scored 70% on Self Freedom, higher than 68% of your peers.
    *

      Expressive Distribution

      You scored 65% on Expressive, higher than 90% of your peers.
    *

      Knowledge Distribution

      You scored 86% on Knowledge, higher than 81% of your peers. (what does he mean by that category, exactly?)

[minionofmidas]

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5171/t/3532/questionnaire.jsp?questionnaire_KEY=162

Officially I got 80, though frankly I think I get 95 and the ADA only gets 85, if you know what I mean.

[minionofmidas]

The Border

You scored 28% individualism, 52% fatalism, 16% hierarchy, and 52% egalitarianism!
You adhere to both the Egalitarian and Fatalist cultures. You think know the prevailing system is corrupt and harmful to people and nature. Your Egalitarian side wants to help the system's victims and usher in a new era of brotherly and sisterly love, but your Fatalist side is cynical about whether reform is really possible. (Not quite. Fundamental reform is of course impossible, but it doesn't follow that progress is.)


Your Analysis (Vertical line = Average)

      individualism Distribution

      You scored 28% on individualism, higher than 12% of your peers.

      fatalism Distribution

      You scored 52% on fatalism, higher than 79% of your peers.

      hierarchy Distribution

      You scored 16% on hierarchy, higher than 14% of your peers.

      egalitarianism Distribution

      You scored 52% on egalitarianism, higher than 39% of your peers.

[minionofmidas]

I still kinda like the direction of the country thingy.

I hadn't seen the scientific cultural one before, or maybe don't remember.

Heh; didn't like the test but partially like the results explanation for the Economics thingy.

My political objectives though are rightly ruled to be Socialist.

[minionofmidas]

[minionofmidas]

"Based on your answers, the best state for you is one where people ’s basic needs are well looked after and people are free to pursue creative and fulfilling lives."

Well, yes, that does sound right. This quiz was a strange mix of quite good and bizarrely bad.
Ranking of dimensions: Big government, individualist, democratic, (from here on we get quite close to 50/50: ) rationalist, wide focus, ecocentric.

[minionofmidas]

Some of the questions were obviously badly machine-translated, but I was able to figure out the gist of most of them.

That seemed even more obvious in the German version... maybe they were written (in one of the two languages) with the express purpose of being machine-translatable?

You are a Social Democrat. 12 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 11 percent are more extremist than you.

[minionofmidas]

Social Democratism (100%)      
Classical liberalism (90%)      
Social liberalism (90%)      
Libertarianism (80%)      
Christian Democratism (70%)      
Green anarchism (70%)      
Neolibertarianism (70%)      
Democratic Socialism (60%)      
Eco-Socialism (60%)      
International Communism (60%)      
Anarcho-Capitalism (50%)      
Anarcho-Socialism (50%)      
Libertarian conservatism (30%)      
Religious anarchism (30%)      
Conservative Social Democratism (20%)      
Fascism (10%)      
Neoconservatism (10%)      
Paleoconservatism (10%)      
National Communism (0%)      
Theocratic Socialism (0%)   

Uh, what? Whoever thought that "theocratic socialism" was a theoretically thinkable concept (or rather, that whatever thinkable concept he had in mind could be semi-accurately described so) clearly doesn't know his own ass from a random elbow in China.

[minionofmidas]

Uh, what? Whoever thought that "theocratic socialism" was a theoretically thinkable concept (or rather, that whatever thinkable concept he had in mind could be semi-accurately described so) clearly doesn't know his own ass from a random elbow in China.

I guess it would be something similar to the ideology of William Jennings Bryan?

Who was neither a Theocrat nor a Socialist. -_-

[minionofmidas]

Uh, what? Whoever thought that "theocratic socialism" was a theoretically thinkable concept (or rather, that whatever thinkable concept he had in mind could be semi-accurately described so) clearly doesn't know his own ass from a random elbow in China.

I figured it may have been a reference to positions such as Christian socialism, Islamic socialism, labour Zionism, etc. where sacred scriptures and traditional customs give political inspiration for valuing economic equality, at least some perceived facets of social justice, and/or public control of the means of production. These are not ideologies Marxists or most non-Marxisant socialists in the West would consider truly socialist, ya, but that does not stop folks who are on the Religious Left from wanting variations of it to call their own.

These're not "theocratic"... (though yeah, it may be what he meant.)

[minionofmidas]

That test is bollocks.

Quite. "Nationalism can be a force for good"? Heck, even I admit that. "Human freedom and economic freedom are inexplicably linked"? They are if you believe they basically add to the same total and adding to the one inevitably means taking away the other. But I liked the ability to say no to all those "we must put faith in seven different classes of bollocks" questions.

Anyways.

Marxist (100%)   
Niebuhrian Liberal (93%)       
Religious Progressive (85%)       
Progressive Pragmatist (80%)       
Social Democrat (73%)       
Hamiltonian Realist (65%)       
New Leftist (65%)       
Wilsonian Liberal Hawk (65%)       
Post-1960s Jeffersonian Liberal (60%)       
Paleoconservative (50%)       
Libertarian (45%)       
Movement conservative (30%)       
Neoconservative (18%)       
Jacksonian Feminist (3%)       
Jacksonian (0%)   

The ef is a "Jacksonian Feminist" anyways?

[minionofmidas]

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-true-politics-test

What an amazingly bad test.
It incidentally called me a centrist.

[minionofmidas]

That hipster test needs a NOTA option. Hard.

Subtle Hipster for me after taking least worst on several questions, possibly at the upper end of that ("you scored 89% on hippoints, higher than 82% of testtakers").

[minionofmidas]

So "subtle hipster" goes from 90 to at least 50? Lol.

[minionofmidas]

It's a crassly dumb test. There are very few options given that I could sign onto with a clear conscience.

[minionofmidas]

Mind you, it doesn't help that it's 12 years old (and I'm sure I've seen it before)... the analysis that they plucked the test results from is better than the test itself, of course.

[minionofmidas]

"Vous vous situez à gauche.

Les partis dont vous êtes le plus proche (dans l'ordre) :

1. Europe Ecologie - les Verts
mais, en règle générale, vous accordez plus d'importance au contexte dans lequel les gens évoluent (ou moins d'importance à leur responsabilité personnelle).
    La candidate d'EE-LV à l'élection présidentielle est l'ancienne juge d'instruction Eva Joly.

Et, dans une moindre mesure :

2. le Parti Socialiste
mais, en règle générale, vous accordez plus d'importance au contexte dans lequel les gens évoluent (ou moins d'importance à leur responsabilité personnelle).
    François Hollande est le candidat du Parti Socialiste.


Le(s) parti(s) qui vien(nen)t ensuite :
3. le Parti Radical de Gauche (PRG)
mais, en règle générale, vous accordez plus d'importance au contexte dans lequel les gens évoluent (ou moins d'importance à leur responsabilité personnelle)"

Bit repetitive but you can see what they mean here:







I'm a tankie on the third indicator, a centreleftie on the other two. Which makes a degree of sense, actually, even though some of my least-bad-of-several-options-of-verbose-cant-that's-not-THAT-easy-to-understand-unassisted answers didn't.