Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.62
Seems sort of worthless. A tad left and slightly anti-authority. Looks like that test (no reason to think it has any merit) puts me basically middle-of-the-road.
The problem is that for most issues I am not middle of the road - but hard core. However, if 50% of the questions make me hard core left and half hard core right - same for authoritarian versus libertarian - I appear sort of a bland middle of the road person on everything - when those who know me on the forum recognize I tend to post very strongly worded and hardcore stances. Some would claim extreme positions.
The mistake is to stereotype me because on some topic I'm intensely pro-Trump or intensely anti-Democratic party. From this they try to assign my having the stance that FOX claims all Trump supporters have. Yet on other topics it will be in the opposite column.
Take environmentalism. I am very much NOT a supporter of the claimed climate change crisis. I don't think there is much humans can or will do about it - that is just really for government taxation and control. Thus, I seem anti-environment. But actually my greatest complaint against the climate change fixation is that it has distracted from the REAL environmental issues such as:
1. The poisoning of our oceans
2. The increasing filling the airways with us and all life constantly bombarded with various "waves" (ie types of radiation)
3. The vast growing amounts of chemicals in our food
4. The never ending population bomb in the poorest places on earth
5. The creation of artificial micro organisms - fungus, bacteria, virus
6. End nuclear power
My profession by choice is protecting mother nature. I spend hundreds of dollars a month feeding wild animals. Yet I oppose everything about "climate change" and the "green deal" - plus do not believe artificial economics for good causes works on a mass scale.
So am I anti environmentalism? Or an environmentalist? Questions in a poll would likely conclude I'm neutral on environmentalism - middle of the road - because by the test author's standards - my answers would split with hardcore diametric opposite responses. But, in fact, in both directions I'm rather hardcore. Hardcore for. Hardcore against. Why? I do not share the test creator's definition of true environmentalism.