The Political Compass

[Combined]

Spoiler: My chart.

Hey everyone, how am I doing so far?

 

[Thamous]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=1.25&soc=-3.18
Yes, I'm different, burn me.

 

[Hafnium]

Wow, that's pretty far to the right Combined, was that truthful?

Thanks for the lesson Nomad, it was a good read, and food for thought.

One thing though, I strongly doubt that the party aims for communism, and that is not something desired by more than a few percent of our population. We have another party to the left of that one (on the conventional bar), which is where the self-proclaimed commies do their thing, but their support has gone from weak to pitiful.

 

[Nomad]

Thanks for the lesson Nomad, it was a good read, and food for thought.

You are an incredibly awesome person. Seriously. Not once during this conversation have you thrown cold-war propaganda in my face, and you have no idea how rare that is.

One thing though, I strongly doubt that the party aims for communism, and that is not something desired by more than a few percent of our population. We have another party to the left of that one (on the conventional bar), which is where the self-proclaimed commies do their thing, but their support has gone from weak to pitiful.

Yeah, the communism-part is really mostly just theory at this point. Trying to gear today's political policy towards something that might be happening sometime in a distant future is not really the most efficient way you can do things. Still, all ideologies have a so-called "utopia", an ideal image to strive for - regardless of how unreachable it may be in reality. Someone once said, I forgot who, that goals and ideals are not meant to be reached - only to act as an incentive for improvement. Communism, anyway, is the utopia of socialism. It has - for the most part - no real place in actual policy, though.

Out of curiousity - where are you from, anyway?

 

[SturmDolch]

Hey!

Although I don't really fit into the prescribed ideas of right and left... I take ideas from both.

 

[jdog345]

Mine is accurate.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I notice that very few people here are above the horizontal axis. Even those that claim allegiance to fascism and similar ideologies.

Oh, and Nomad & 2012 get cookies from me.

 

[Hafnium]

Thanks for the lesson Nomad, it was a good read, and food for thought.

You are an incredibly awesome person. Seriously. Not once during this conversation have you thrown cold-war propaganda in my face, and you have no idea how rare that is.

Thanks.. now let's get a room you stud! just kidding of course.
You're welcome btw, and I learned some interesting stuff there.

Yeah, the communism-part is really mostly just theory at this point. Trying to gear today's political policy towards something that might be happening sometime in a distant future is not really the most efficient way you can do things. Still, all ideologies have a so-called "utopia", an ideal image to strive for - regardless of how unreachable it may be in reality. Someone once said, I forgot who, that goals and ideals are not meant to be reached - only to act as an incentive for improvement. Communism, anyway, is the utopia of socialism. It has - for the most part - no real place in actual policy, though.

Out of curiousity - where are you from, anyway?

True words that..

I'm a not so proud Dane (which can be deduced by my user name, which is an element discovered in and named after Copenhagen (Hafnia in latin)).

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Now if you will excuse me. I have to go deal with Papa Hitler. He is, once again, trying to convince the cat to invade Poland using a army of mouse "volunteers".
Senile bastard.
The cat doesn't even speak german! Mainly english and a touch of esperanto they forced on him in college.

I do hope you're joking.

 

[Margrave Rinstock]

Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.33

Lol I am a Monarchist aswell.

 

[Naheal]

Hmm... Much more right wing then I thought. Thought I'd be more left. Oh well. Libertarian is fine by me.

 

[Tempest Fennac]

The test said I was a Left Wing Libertarian when I took it a few years back but I'd say I'm closer to Naheal's results in real life.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

No I'm not, I'm not a right-winger... Or am I? All I know is that I support freedom and capitalism.

 

[Nomad]

No I'm not, I'm not a right-winger... Or am I? All I know is that I support freedom and capitalism.

The compass makes the assumption that left-wing equals economic regulation while right-wing equals free market. So supporting "freedom" and "capitalism" would likely place you to the far right.

I have a problem with that assumption, though, since right/left - even economic right/left - covers a whole lot of other factors, and don't even generally follow the pattern used in this compass. The right/left-scale is less based on freedom and choice than it is based on social hierarchy.

I would like to rename the right/left-axis on this compass to something in the area of "regulatory/liberal".

 

[WeedWorm]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.75&soc=-7.18

This tells me nothing I didnt know already.

 

[DayDark]

I guess that pretty much fits.

 

[Death2Nite]

Gamers=Ghandi?