I'm wondering if I can get farther to the left and more libertarian than I already am.

About where I figured.

I wish I was dead center.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...-1.12&soc=0.31

Nah, you are trending the right direction.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...6.50&soc=-4.46

Pretty much like the rest of you....:D

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...2.50&soc=-3.90

I think I'm starting to sense a theme...

So far, you are the closest to me.

Mine:
Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...6.00&soc=-5.08

Not surprising, methinks.

Attachment 5504

I am a communist. Beware of me. I am a danger for the society.

as a matter of fact, those questions were stupid, cos I am not very leftist but maybe it affect these results that the test was made for Americans. Also America is more conservative country as a whole.

I find the test is pretty hard to manipulate when you answer instinctively. People are always surprised by their results, because they think they lean one way and then the outcome is completely different.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...0.88&soc=-2.36

This is actually a surprise for me, though when I was answering the questions, I noticed many of my answers were contradictory when viewed on their own:

• LGBT folk are fine to have the same rights as everyone.......though I'm 99% against abortion.
• I believe in free trade, the more free the better.....though corporations should be regulated and held to the same standard as individuals.
• Some individual rights must be surrendered to a higher power in order for the rest of the individual rights to be ensured and protected.

Let me guess, you are a religious person, who also heavily supports military spending and or deregulation maybe?

I would be shocked if you are not religious like myself. Regardless, I've only found 4/5 people who have had similar results as I. You're definitely the closest though.

This thing is soo easy to manipulate, imo.

Nope not religious. Spiritual yes. There are areas of military spending that needs to be cut back on but they are currently doing cuts that will hurt the troops instead of cutting back on hiring mercs and things of that nature.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...6.25&soc=-0.26

i support gays and guns

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps4d885f68.png

Yep.

https://gm1.ggpht.com/buLMgVDxvupwIj...=w908-h479-l75

More extreme than my last test. #radical

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.00

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...6.62&soc=-6.00

I wouldn't take too much stock in these tests for your actual orientation for anything on a non-Western scale. Left/Right in this case basically seems to come down to whether you support free markets or state intervention and Authoritarian/Libertarian is more like social liberal/conservative.

yeah mines changed since I took it five years ago.

This is my current one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...graphpng-1.png

Here is mine.Attachment 5526

Holy ****. You Dick Cheney by any chance?

Chris, I believe this test is for Americans only, specifically citizens.

Someone like you taking this test is virtually useless because you can't vote AND you don't live in the United States.

it's interesting for me, maybe?
also it doesn't really make any difference for americans to do the test, as well,
because you will not always vote for the same party.
also it just asks questions about my political approach,
and gives me the whereabouts of my compass..thingy


edit: ok read a few other pages of this thread. people from finland, canada, new zealand, istanbul, uk and i'm too lazy to look even deeper into the thread have made this test. why didn't you tell them?

I agree with Toffel, most if not all of the questions were not exclusive to American politics, so the test has relevance to non-Americans as well.

I know there's a test from the same site for people in the UK, I don't know about the other countries.

I guess it doesn't really matter...

LOL doesnt'reallymatter

No, he's much tamer than me.

http://i1346.photobucket.com/albums/...ps70d2b0fe.png[/URL][/IMG]

Woah, we are complete opposites.

The only differences would come from the whole left and right.

Isn't it the opposite in the UK compared to the US?

Like people on the right are more liberal and people on the left are more conservative.

I don't think so but I could be wrong.

Generally the boundaries between social and economic conservatism in the UK are a bit less easily defined than in the US, for example a number of moderate left British parties play on nationalism as one of their draws and our currently ruling Conservative Party is actually willing to pass a gay marriage bill to appease their allies, although they have some traditionalists in their ranks that are attempting to block it. As a whole though I'd say that the left is more liberal than the right, although every major party in this country is realistically firmly on the right anyway.

As he responded to my post, and I live in Germany,
it's still the same way round as in America.
Left is more attached to liberal values,
Right more attached to conservative values.

I'm not sure about the UK, either, but I don't think so,
as the words "left" and "right" are dated back to the french national assembly from 1789, where the people in the assembly where divided in "la coté gauche" (the left side) and "la coté droite" (the right side). The left side brought out revolutionary and republican ideas, as the right side stook to monarchy, as it was, in there eyes, the most wise idea.
I think it's the same in all of Europe, and in America

No, those on the right are more conservative and those on the left are more liberal in general. But compared to American politics the whole spectrum here has a more leftward overall slant. For example our Conservative party the right wing is not like your Republicans but more like your Democrats. The last time our Conservative party was anything like the Republicans was back in the 1980s.

Bumped because I want to.

Found out about the site just recently, pretty cool indicator. This is what I got:

http://s1.postimg.org/ub6c78wv3/political_compass.png

We're in the same ballpark.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/cha...5.88&soc=-2.51

I took this a while ago, and I think I got almost the exact same result.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/cha...16.13&soc=-6.0

I've taken this before but tried it again to see where I stand, just out of curiosity. Looks like I'm off the charts?

It's extremely hard to take this seriously, the questions are so ridiculously loaded it's not even funny. Also, the lack of a middle ground, or at least the ability to skip a question leads me to believe there is no real basis to its methodology.

'Do you want to kill all the homosexuals?'
Options: YES!, Most Days, Not Always, and I Am a Homosexual

Ja I can see where you're coming from.

Interesting to see that all four of you got left-wing results, considering that both major parties in the US (well, Obama and Mitt Romney, at least) are on pretty much the compete opposite end.

But yeah, it's still an internet test.