What are your politics (international version)?

Page 5 of 6 [ 89 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next

Whether or not you took the test, what are your politics?

Left/Authoritarian (government control of business or socialism and of personal conduct)	5%	[ 2 ]
Left/Libertarian (government control of business or socialism and lots of personal freedoms)	52%	[ 22 ]
Left/Other	10%	[ 4 ]
Right/Authoritarian (Pro private business but lots of control over personal conduct)	5%	[ 2 ]
Right/Libertarian (Lots of personal and economic freedom)	26%	[ 11 ]
Right/Other	2%	[ 1 ]

Total votes : 42

Raptor
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 8 Mar 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 12,997
Location: Southeast U.S.A.

11 Mar 2013, 8:37 pm

/\
Is there a trollishness test?

_________________
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson

trollcatman
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Dec 2012
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,919

11 Mar 2013, 8:37 pm

thomas81 wrote:

its looking pretty lonely over on the right..

Not as lonely as the authoritarian quadrants. There hasn't been anyone who is seriously authoritarian, or as authoritarian as most politicians of today according to that chart.

trollcatman
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Dec 2012
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,919

11 Mar 2013, 8:40 pm

GGPViper wrote:

I took the liberty of posting the politically correct position of Raptor, which is of course the exact opposite of ArrantPariah...

Then Raptor is more left and more libertarian than Obama. Isn't there anyone who out-authoritarianizes the current politicians?

thomas81
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 2 May 2012
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Posts: 5,147
Location: County Down, Northern Ireland

11 Mar 2013, 8:45 pm

i was expecting fnord to be on the top right corner.

_________________
Being 'normal' is over rated.

My deviant art profile

Raptor
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 8 Mar 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 12,997
Location: Southeast U.S.A.

11 Mar 2013, 8:49 pm

Maybe I need to polish my jackboots harder..... :chin:

_________________
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson

ModusPonens
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 1 Jan 2013
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 715

11 Mar 2013, 9:38 pm

LMFAO!! !

A centrist guy who wishes he was in the right wing nut club and a left libertarian who had to take the test again so he could be right libertarian.

This is really fun!

Raptor
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 8 Mar 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 12,997
Location: Southeast U.S.A.

11 Mar 2013, 9:42 pm

ModusPonens wrote:

LMFAO!! !

A centrist guy who wishes he was in the right wing nut club and a left libertarian who had to take the test again so he could be right libertarian.

This is really fun!

Will you admit there is also a left wing nut club?

_________________
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson

ModusPonens
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 1 Jan 2013
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 715

11 Mar 2013, 9:45 pm

Raptor wrote:

ModusPonens wrote:

LMFAO!! !

A centrist guy who wishes he was in the right wing nut club and a left libertarian who had to take the test again so he could be right libertarian.

This is really fun!

Will you admit there is also a left wing nut club?

Of course! Maoists and Stalinists are just as nutty as Bushists.

Tyri0n
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 24 Nov 2012
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,879
Location: Douchebag Capital of the World (aka Washington D.C.)

11 Mar 2013, 9:49 pm

Raptor wrote:

ModusPonens wrote:

LMFAO!! !

A centrist guy who wishes he was in the right wing nut club and a left libertarian who had to take the test again so he could be right libertarian.

This is really fun!

Will you admit there is also a left wing nut club?

Definitely. It's amazing that nearly half the members, including myself, are to the left of Hugo Chavez. lol!

By the way, putting together that chart with all the members' scores plotted on it was a cool idea GGP!

Raptor
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 8 Mar 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 12,997
Location: Southeast U.S.A.

11 Mar 2013, 10:34 pm

It must not be a very comprehensive test.
I should have come in further right.

_________________
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson

Dox47
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 28 Jan 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 13,670
Location: Seattle-ish

12 Mar 2013, 3:21 am

The way the questions were structured did feel a bit designed to push to the left, especially the questions about corporations and who should benefit from economic activity. I'm definitely a right libertarian if you define that as being for both personal and economic liberty, but I hardly think I'm to the right of Fnord, Ruveyn, and Raptor by conventional definition of right and left wings.

_________________
Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.

- Rick Sanchez

GGPViper
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 23 Sep 2009
Gender: Male
Posts: 5,880

12 Mar 2013, 5:55 am

Dox47 wrote:

I think the axis configuration Left/Right captures a lot of real variation between political positions, as the wide range of WP responses on this axis suggests. The "centre" in the questions might be considered somewhat left of centre by a lot of people due to the wording of the questions, though.

The Authoritarian/Libertarian axis does less so, but this might be due to self-selection on WP (members here in general don't seem to be all that much in favour of authority) or because of some oddly worded questions.

But if you look at the positions the site assigns to governments and political leaders (as per the OP), the creators seem to have a very novel view on where the centre in politics is located. They seem to make excessive use of the upper right quadrant...

Just look at these:

EU Countries
US Senators

Now, most people would probably agree that the US is more right-wing on economic issues than the European Union, right?

Apparently, though, the political views of European countries and US senators are almost identical! They all bundle together in the top right quadrant...

Conservatives everywhere rejoice... Because, apparently, *anyone and everyone* is a conservative...

Schneekugel
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 18 Jul 2012
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,612

12 Mar 2013, 6:51 am

Raptor wrote:

ModusPonens wrote:

LMFAO!! !

A centrist guy who wishes he was in the right wing nut club and a left libertarian who had to take the test again so he could be right libertarian.

This is really fun!

Will you admit there is also a left wing nut club?

There has to be, since I always have been a member to it. ^^

John_Browning
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Mar 2009
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,456
Location: The shooting range

12 Mar 2013, 6:56 am

It's stating to look more like a test of how much you tow the party line, all disagreements with a particular aspect of a policy you like will move your score to the center even though all you are really doing is putting some independent intelligent thought into how it should be administered. I'd be curious how choices of news sources or lack thereof compares to people's views. Mt biggest 3 sources are Yahoo, Reuters, and AP.

_________________
"Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars."
- Unknown

"A fear of weapons is a sign of ret*d sexual and emotional maturity."
-Sigmund Freud

ruveyn
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Age: 89
Gender: Male
Posts: 31,502
Location: New Jersey

12 Mar 2013, 7:42 am

uwmonkdm wrote:

What are my political beliefs called if I think all these systems don't work? :lol:

Arrrgghhhhj! Smart as paint ye arrrre.

ModusPonens
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 1 Jan 2013
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Posts: 715

12 Mar 2013, 12:41 pm

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00

Page 5 of 6 [ 89 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next

Jump to:

What are your politics (international version)? Post Reply New Topic

What are your politics (international version)?