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Another Round of Political Testing

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CORONADO'S SCORE

Your scored -0.5 on Moral Order and -4 on Moral Rules.

The following categories best match your score (multiple responses are possible):

1. System: Liberalism
2. Ideology: Capital Democratism
3. Party: Democratic Party
4. Presidents: Gerald Ford
5. 04' Election: John Kerry, Michael Badnarik
6. 08' Election: John McCain
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Wow, I don't agree with that at all!
 
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YOUR SCORE
Your scored -6 on [URL="http://www.moral-politics.com/xPolitics.aspx?menu=Moral_Dimensions&action=Draw&choice=MoralDimensions.Moral_Order"]Moral Order and 2 on Moral Rules.

The following categories best match your score (multiple responses are possible):

  1. System: Socialism
  2. Ideology: Activism
  3. Party: Green Party
  4. Presidents: Jimmy Carter
  5. 04' Election: David Cobb
  6. 08' Election: Dennis Kucinich
Of the 550,935 respondents (9,661 on Facebook):

  1. 5% are close to you.
  2. 66% are more conservative.
  3. 1% are more liberal.
  4. 2% are more socialist.
  5. 16% are more authoritarian.
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No real surprise. This is where I usually turn out on these things.
 
I don't like the Moral Matrix as much, but last time, I scored as an "International Socialist," though I should be classified as a libertarian socialist. The Political Compass should integrate classifications like that, though, instead of mere plotting on the two-dimensional graph.
 
Agnapostate said:
I don't like the Moral Matrix as much, but last time, I scored as an "International Socialist," though I should be classified as a libertarian socialist. The Political Compass should integrate classifications like that, though, instead of mere plotting on the two-dimensional graph.
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Yes, there should certainly be extra dimensions on the Compass. "Nationalist vs. Globalist" would good, as would "Progressive vs. Reactionary". Of course, most political science people aren't capable of visualizing a four-dimensional graph... but three dimensions would work for most people.
 
I guess im more of a centrist than I thought.
 
THE SILENCED MAJORITY'S SCORE

Your scored 1.5 on Moral Order and -7.5 on Moral Rules.

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The following categories best match your score (multiple responses are possible):

System: Conservatism
Ideology: Ultra Capitalism
Party: No match.
Presidents: Ronald Reagan
04' Election: George W. Bush
08' Election: Ron Paul



Of the 551,009 respondents (9,665 on Facebook):

1% are close to you.
0% are more conservative.
1% are more liberal.
77% are more socialist.
21% are more authoritarian
 
Korimyr the Rat said:
Yes, there should certainly be extra dimensions on the Compass. "Nationalist vs. Globalist" would good, as would "Progressive vs. Reactionary". Of course, most political science people aren't capable of visualizing a four-dimensional graph... but three dimensions would work for most people.
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I've never seen a 4 dimensional graph myself.
 
WI Crippler said:
I've never seen a 4 dimensional graph myself.
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Don't say I never gave you anything...:2wave:
 
Not sure how to post the pic but mine said:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28
 
Economic Left/Right: 4.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

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Kali said:
Not sure how to post the pic but mine said:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.28
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Not sure why I'm up at midnight doing this but ...

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System: Conservatism, Liberalism
Ideology: Conservative NeoLiberalism, Progressive NeoLiberalism
Party: Republican Party
Presidents: Ronald Reagan
04' Election: Michael Badnarik
08' Election: Ron Paul
 
Here's a few others:

We have the Nolan Test (or the "World's Smallest Political Quiz," which is two-dimensional but is so simplistic as to merely bias it in favor of propertarianism (what is falsely called "libertarianism" today). I got this:

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Of course, my socialism places me in direct opposition to liberal economic principles, but this quiz is too crude to perceive anything further than leftist economic principles.

Then we have Politopia - The Land of Custom-Made Government .

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Again, excessively simplistic. We also have Political Quiz.net

The Quiz

The following are your scores. They are based on a gradual range of 0 to 12. For instance, a Conservative/Progressive score of 3 and 0 will both yield a result of social conservative, yet 0 would be an extreme conservative and 3 a moderate conservative

Conservative/Progressive score: 12
You are a social progressive. You generally consider yourself a humanist first. You probably think that religion and patriotism go too far in society. You probably consider yourself to be a citizen of Earth first rather than a citizen of your country.

Capitalist Purist/Social Capitalist score: 12
You're a Social Capitalist, you think that, left to its own, Capitalism leaves a lot of people behind. You think that Health Care should be free to all, that the minimum wage should be raised, and that the government should provide jobs to all that are capable of having them. You likely hated the Bush tax cuts, and believe that the middle class has gotten poorer, and the rich have gotten richer over the past several years. The far extreme of social capitalism is socialism.

Libertarian/Authoritarian score: 0
You are libertarian. You think that the government is making way too many unnecessary laws that are taking away our innate rights. You believe that the government's job is primarily to protect people from harming other people, but after that they should mind their own business, and if we give the government too much power in controlling our lives, it can lead to fascism.

Pacifist/Militarist score: 0
You're a Pacifist. You are angered that the United States thinks it should dominate the world through its military force. You think that the only time war is necessary is when we are in direct danger of being attacked. You also believe the US spends way too much of its money on defense, as we can practically cut it in half and still easily defend ourselves, and use that money to fix all our economic problems.

Overall, you would most likely fit into the category of Hardcore Democrat
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"Hardcore Democrat"? lol, hell no. :lol:

And we also have The Enhanced-Precision Political Quiz in 2D

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You want government out of your personal life. On the other hand, you want more government in your economic life. This puts you closest to either the Green Party or the radical wing of the Democratic Party. You might even consider yourself a socialist, or a “true” communist (as opposed to the “state capitalists” who ran the old Soviet Union). Approximately 3% of the takers of this quiz scored in this area, 18% for all liberals outside the centrist circle.
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There's a noted lack of sophistication in all of these other quizzes that the Political Compass does not suffer from to such a degree, despite its minor deficiencies. The inference that I "want more government in my economic life" as a result of being a socialist is blatantly wrong, though I'm glad that they were able to note that I likely consider the Soviet Union "state capitalist" in nature. However, the Political Compass analysis goes beyond that, noting that

oth an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period.
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One thing all these test fail at, is accounting for people like me. People who are willing to have a certain degree of government influence in a localized region for certain things, but are adamantly opposed to national governemnt influence in these areas.

For example, nationally, I'm against social security and welfare type things, but locally I could support certain initiatives related to these issues. And I think that at the state level, something closer to a pure democracy is better than a representative democracy.

Typically, the way that the questions are asked don't allow for this view. Everything is relative to the national governemnt. So this skews me towards "anarcho-capitalism" and libertarianism, even though I favor a certain amount of state-level regulations on business.

Another great example of how my views will change the way I vote on an issue is gay marriage or abortion. I would vote in favor of the legalization of both in my local region in a heartbeat, but I would definitely vote against such legalization at the national level. I would be inclined to overturn Roe v. Wade, while at the same time, fight any attempts to make abortion illegal nationwide.

My overall personal views are never even close to being represented by these tests, but my national views are at least decently approximated by them.
 
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Hello Ayn Rand.

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Tucker Case said:
One thing all these test fail at, is accounting for people like me. People who are willing to have a certain degree of government influence in a localized region for certain things, but are adamantly opposed to national governemnt influence in these areas.

For example, nationally, I'm against social security and welfare type things, but locally I could support certain initiatives related to these issues. And I think that at the state level, something closer to a pure democracy is better than a representative democracy.

Typically, the way that the questions are asked don't allow for this view. Everything is relative to the national governemnt. So this skews me towards "anarcho-capitalism" and libertarianism, even though I favor a certain amount of state-level regulations on business.

Another great example of how my views will change the way I vote on an issue is gay marriage or abortion. I would vote in favor of the legalization of both in my local region in a heartbeat, but I would definitely vote against such legalization at the national level. I would be inclined to overturn Roe v. Wade, while at the same time, fight any attempts to make abortion illegal nationwide.

My overall personal views are never even close to being represented by these tests, but my national views are at least decently approximated by them.
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I think one of the failings of both the tests is that it doesn't tend to differentiate between what I think is immoral and what I think should be prohibited. The example that comes to mind is whether or not one believes adultery is immoral. I do, but I don't think it should have anything to do with state governance.
 
Redress said:
You fell between Drew Carey and Ayn Rand. I find that amusing for some reason.
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Well, as long as he didn't fall between Drew Carry and the dessert cart.


THe risks of trampling being what they are.
 
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