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Title: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: Phony Moderate on August 02, 2012, 09:51:42 AM ....according to Political Compass, anyway.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/euchart Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: afleitch on August 02, 2012, 10:01:22 AM Which is sort of why it sucks.
Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: Phony Moderate on August 02, 2012, 10:04:06 AM Which is sort of why it sucks. It would probably put you to the right of the BNP. :P Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: Antonio the Sixth on August 02, 2012, 10:11:26 AM Hollande ? Thoring-Schmidt ? Di Rupo ? LOL.
Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: Oakvale on August 02, 2012, 10:19:02 AM The Political Compass is a total joke. Read the text below the various charts. They're basically awful Chomskyite leftists who think Dennis Kucinich is a Great Man and that the world is run by
Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: You kip if you want to... on August 02, 2012, 10:55:23 AM The PVV-supported Dutch government being the most socially libertarian? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY)
Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: Simfan34 on August 02, 2012, 11:00:54 AM Yay! If only...
Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: Middle-aged Europe on August 02, 2012, 02:13:18 PM It gets interesting when you compare their EU chart with their 2012 U.S. presidential election chart.
Look very closely, and you'll notice that the Cameron government in Britain is actually more right-wing than Mitt Romney. :P () () Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! on August 04, 2012, 05:47:04 PM The Political Compass is a total joke. It's almost as realiable as Zogby polling. Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: You kip if you want to... on August 04, 2012, 07:56:00 PM Look very closely, and you'll notice that the Cameron government in Britain is actually more right-wing than Mitt Romney. :P I know right. Mitt should be closer to Victor Orban. Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: YL on August 05, 2012, 04:52:13 AM How do they get these numbers? If they're actually going through the questions and trying to answer them as they think the people in question would, then they must be giving some strange answers to get some of those scores.
(I once did this myself with Tony Blair, and got a much more centrist score than they were showing for him at the time.) Title: Re: Every EU government is right-wing and authoritarian.... Post by: I spent the winter writing songs about getting better on August 05, 2012, 04:28:14 PM The most telling thing about how not found of Cameron they are is that they put the UK just a point less authoritarian than Hungary.
Gary Johnson's placement on the economic axis might be most amusing though. And I don't know where they're getting Rocky Anderson being so economically right wing from. |