The Political Compass

[user 23602]

Despite massively disliking politics... Thought I'd kill some time over my lunch break.

 

[MickDundee]

I’ve done this a few times and come out as a lefty libertarian (even though I don’t actually think I’m that much of a libertarian - I’m all for regulation of a lot of things)

 

[An Ankoù]

WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BREWING BEER AS A HOBBY AND BEING RIGHT WING?
We're not a very right-wing bunch, so far, are we? Where are all the climate change deniers, no-dealers and Trump-loving mofos when you need them? I'm not surprised; I've always thought of beer as the working man's drink. In fact
beer should be free, like air and rain!

 

[An Ankoù]

I’ve done this a few times and come out as a lefty libertarian (even though I don’t actually think I’m that much of a libertarian - I’m all for regulation of a lot of things)

"There are inherent contradictions in this kind of argument. You can't have a welfare state without the money coming from somewhere to pay for it. You can't have liberty without there being a structure in place to uphold freedom. It's like pacifism: it only takes a small number of predators and all your thoroughgoing pacifists are meat. "
Discuss. (20 marks)

 

[Rodj]

Does anyone have any idea where Lee Kuan Yew would have come on that chart?

 

[Rodj]

beer should be free, like air and rain!

Nice idea, AA, but if it were free someone would promptly start to pollute it and mess it up, just like they are messing up the air and the rain.

 

[simon12]

Just to test I tried answering as Hitler and got economic -4.75 and authoritarian 7.23 which I think is more accurate than they place him. But I can't work out how to post the graphics on this tablet.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

4/12/2020 - I have decided to bump this old thread so we can see if Justin Dean was right when he posted this earlier - Is it just me or is this forum overly socialist

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Excellent test well done Chippy for refreshing it.

 

[chopps]

So somewhere between Friedman and Ghandi :)

 

[chthon]

I fall on the spot of Caroline Lucas. Had to look that up on Wikipedia

I think green or not is actually a third axis. While green ideas are good, I don't like the Belgian greens very much, because they mostly work from viewpoint of technical and scientific ignorance.

 

[simon12]

Looks like I have shifted from last time

I think there is an error in how it calculates moral questions as just because I think something is bad it doesn't mean I want to force that view on others so I think I am less authoritarian than this suggests.

 

[simon12]

Looking again I have not changed that much

 

[Druss]

Hmm, I think this is rather generalised and inaccurate (well, of course it is, it's a multiple choice survey) but here's my result:

Now, my political views are so right wing that they would make the outlook of Nazi Germany appear profoundly liberal, there wasn't much scope there...I dunno, maybe I'm just 'complicated'.

 

[slowdave]

Based on this thread - I think I'm a typical home brewer

And thanks for the link/thread ChippyTea - this is great

 

[Falco]

Well here’s another manifestation from me of what seems to be a continuing trend

 

[Cwrw666]

Blimey I appear to have moved further to the left. I thought you were meant to get more right wing and authoritarian as you got older.
And yet no intention of voting Labour in the forseable future.

 

[Deathstar]

Here is mine, another lefty.....lol

 

[Falco]

Blimey I appear to have moved further to the left. I thought you were meant to get more right wing and authoritarian as you got older.
And yet no intention of voting Labour in the forseable future.

Me too, it’s worrying isn’t it that there seems to be no credible alternative for a lot of people to the chinless Tory wonders and their fellow neoliberal wannabes

 

[Jim Brewster]