westothemax

Economic Left/Right: -2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.23

I remember taking this before, and I used to be closer to the dalai lama.

madp

Economic Left/Right: 5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.03

Age 36

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Carlo Marx

Economic Left/Right: -3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

23

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I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves throught the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angleheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night,

Howl for Carl Solomon by Allen Ginsberg

PeaceFrog

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.10

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The only people for me are the mad ones...

nanofever

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56

Age 18

I really should move to Norway for a year during college, just to see what a social democrat paradise is like.

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Originally Posted by Norseman on another forum:
"Yeah, the problem with the world is the stupid people are all cocksure of themselves and the intellectuals are full of doubt."

feelgood

Economic Left/Right -1.50
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.36

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Candide

Pretty much a Ghandi Libertarian/Socialist. Hmmm, I've always thought of myself as more of an Anarchist (the George Woodcock variety - outgrow the need for a state, rather than overthrow it).

Some of the questions were more a question of empirical fact, rather than opinion, though.

Paq

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90

age: 26

Also, be glad you pay high taxes, that generally means you make enough to be able to pay high taxes. Heck, sometimes i barely make enough to pay anything...I'd gladly move up to the bracket that pays %40-50 of their income to taxes...

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Chris

drown_with_me

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

Age: 27

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"I wanna see the movies
of your dreams..."

- Built to Spill

hlprmnky

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

Age: 28

Wow! I've only got two years left to effect a change of some five points, lest I run afoul of the Curse of Churchill!

Strange Famous

Looks like Im still the furthest left of you all!

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

hlprmnky

Ustwo: I apologize in advance if the above statement was meant as a specific observation about Mr Mephisto based on your knowledge of him and/or his posting history. It reads more like a generalization about the raw numerical scores he posted, and my reply treats it as such.

Speaking solely for myself (-5.25, -5.59), I would say that your blinders must make it hard to get around.

I don't expect the government to "give me stuff" or "control everyone who works"; I do believe that there are things which are vitally important to the maintenance of a democratic society (roads, national defense, and good public schools, to name three off the top of my head), but for which no viable profit model exists. I also believe that any organization which explicitly claims 'make the most money possible' as its sole criterion for decision making (cf. publicly-traded companies) requires some sort of oversight (e.g., I don't trust them ). Despite the fact that I think capitalism is far and away the best economic model we've come up with yet, I guess this makes me a "socialist".

And as for the "drugs and free love", again your characterization misses the point. What I personally feel about drug use or premarital sex or homosexuality has nothing to do with my conviction that none of these things are any of the government's damned business. So long as a person doesn't break any laws (property crime, murder, rape, etc.), what they put in their body, or what of their body they put in other people's, should not in any way be the subject of invasive, humiliating, not to mention *costly*, government oversight and interference. I guess that makes me a "hippie", in your eyes, but I certainly disagree.

Willy

I'm even closer.

Economic Left/Right: 0.0
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -.62

Never knew I was so moderate. I guess I should have made more use of the "strongly" options hehe.

Xell101

1/18/04
Economic Left/Right: -1.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69

6/18/05:
Economic Left/Right: -1.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.15

Scipio

Economic Left/Right: 0.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69

Center libertarian! And a bit to the right even! And this from a solid democrat that would like to expand government! Oh the humanity!

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mystix

good one, i'm exactly the same place as ghandi

Strange Famous

Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.18

they say as you get older you become more right wing, and it shows Im becoming more conservative

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

MSD

Now:
Economic Left/Right: 0.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67

Election 2004 map
Is it any wonder that I feel poorly represented in politics?

Janey

Wow! I feel normal!

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Libertian/Authoritarian: -3.18

Charlatan

This is about where I was the last time I did this test. Not too surprised.

Economic Left/Right: -6.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49




I find it facinating that the so-called left candidate, John Kerry is really not all that different from Bush.

I further find it interesting that Nader is truly the American alternative (he's much more in line with the political positioning of say, Northern Europe or the left Canada than anything else that is happening in the US...

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- Old Man Luedecke

djtestudo

Your political compass:

Economic Left/Right: 3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.15

Every time I take the test that's about where I get it.

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--Peter Schmuck, The (Baltimore) Sun

hrandani

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

I was left of Ghandi. And Stalin I think : x

Age 19

MSD

I really wish there was a third axis for foreign policy beliefs, but this is a good way to make comparisons.

Paq

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46

near gandhi, mandela and the dalai lama...I feel i'm in good company

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Chris

Mojo_PeiPei

Crickey:

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.36

host

I want a world that doesn't justify illegal miltary action "sometimes",
doesn't try to dictate who can or cannot have an abortion, favors stockholders or "businessmen" vs. the rest of us, doesn't try to permit the wealthy to go to the "head of the line" to buy organ transplants, doesn't try to prohibit the "queers" from adopting children or from a legal union, doesn't try to dictate permissible behavior in my bedroom, doesn't believe that "those" people should keep to themselves, doesn't try to cram an "official religion" down my throat.

And for those opinions, I am branded:

Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.21

go figure..............

flstf

Economic Left/Right: 0.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00

pan6467

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00

I didn't think I was so far left.

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roachboy

that's funny. as a result of answering a sequence of often really stupid questions, i was positioned to the left of the dalai lama. i have no idea what that means.

Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.79

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

keyshawn

[age 18]

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87

A bit more left than I had originally thought. I agree that the compass had few, if any questions, on foreign policy/war.

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meembo

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82

Just a little more libertarian than Gandhi, I guess.

Some people's scores are a little surprising! Got to read their posts more carefully....

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bigwolf

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.21


middle of the road radical.. thats me!

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The_wall

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82

I don't post here often but read this forum a lot.

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Procrastinate now, don't put off to the last minute.

soundmotor

Wow, 3.75/0.31 for me.

Hello kindred, pretty close within .5!

soundmotor

cellophanedeity

It seems I'm in good company in my little space.

Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90

I thought that this was an interesting statement/question:

muckluck

Economic Left/Right: -5.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67

I have long hair, and listen to the Beatles... just thought you should know. I don't call myself a hippie though.

Daniel_

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.95

Like Paq, I'm near Ghandi and the Dalai Lama. Good company indeed.

MSD

Many totalitarian leaders have criticized abstract art and at times had it destroyed along with intellectual institutions like universities. Agreeing with the statement that it shouldn't be considered art indicates a tendency to want to impose personal views on others and dictate not only their actions, but their thoughts.

That's one of my favorite questions on the test, along with these:

"It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product."

"The prime function of schooling should be to equip the future generation to find jobs."

"When you are troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things."

"Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried."

"The businessman and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist."

host

If you selected "agree" to either of the above two questions from the survey, did you consider, before answering, that you would be agreeing to cede the decision making authority as to what constitutes "art that doesn't represent anything", and "wrongdoers" to unknown entities of unknown qualification and integrity, operating in the confines of unknown criteria, if they disclose any criteria at all, or adhere to what they do disclose?

I cannot support the death penalty because I am not confident that the integrity of the officials charged with overseeing the process of selecting the guilty candidates for execution, is at a high enough level to consistantly mete out justice with accuracy. The former governor Ryan of Illinois seemed to make a similar observation a few years ago. He then emptied the death row cells and suspended the death penalty in Illinois. Why are so many other governors unwilling to ask the same questions, or are willing to accept a lower level of justice and accuracy?
Do people in Illinois care more about the integrity of their justice system for capital crimes in Illinois than they do in Texas? Why was the Illinois governor going through such a different process regarding decisions on approving execution warrants than Texas governor Bush was, simultaneously, in 1999? Why is the Texas legislature still refusing to react to lessons learned in Illinois?

Does the process that leads to the "left" or the "right" boil down to the "devil" being in the "details" vs. the ends justifying the means?
The process that each of us uses to conclude, arrive at a conclusion, is by it's nature, a process designed to end with the reaching of a decision. Is "left" or "right" reduced to a matter of the complexity of the decision making processes of the survey participants?

I hope others will share the thought process that they went through to answer the "abstract art" and "wrongdoers" questions. I hope that it will help us to better understand our differences of opinion and philosphy.

Gilda

Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28

I'm in almost exactly the same place as the Dalai Lama. Not sure what to make of that.

This is like one of those "masculine feminine" tests. There are some questions that I couldn't figure out what the left / right or lib / auth position was supposed to be, though I did answer all question honestly.

For example, the abstract art, or the bottled water questions, can't quite grasp what those are guaging. The abstract art can't be economic, but I can't see whether it's supposed to be libertarian or authoritarian. If I say abstract art is art, I'm imposing my opinion on it, but the same is true if I say it isn't art; both positions seem to be libertarian.