Political compass test.

• Curly J

  

  
• wizecracker

  Economic 2.75
  social 2.21
  
• sandwalk

  Very interesting evaluation.....
  
  Economic Left/Right: -3.50
  Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.49
  
  
• BCSbunk

  Cleveland Buck wrote:

  Nice work. I talk on other forums one in particular has many people from all over the world they find it very funny when someone calls President Obama a liberal.
  
  He is in the authoritarian right he is just a bit lower on the Authoritarian scale than some of the other candidates.

  Which is why you can't take his test as some kind of fact. Anyone with Obama's views is definitely liberal. It doesn't matter how he answered these questions. Government takeover of health care and car companies, and his frivolous Keynesian stimulus that didn't stimulate anything except the price of gold, are decidedly liberal policies.

  No anyone with Obamas view is right authoritarian.
  
  The center line if you are not left you are not liberal. He may have a few liberal views but he is not even that close to the center of the line.
  
  You mean former President Bush's bailout right? He signed the first bailouts.
• BCSbunk

  ernest_t_bass wrote: I wish I was further to the right.

  You can be, just change your views on some of the issues and you will go further to the right.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  BCSbunk wrote:

  Cleveland Buck wrote:

  Nice work. I talk on other forums one in particular has many people from all over the world they find it very funny when someone calls President Obama a liberal.
  
  He is in the authoritarian right he is just a bit lower on the Authoritarian scale than some of the other candidates.

  Which is why you can't take his test as some kind of fact. Anyone with Obama's views is definitely liberal. It doesn't matter how he answered these questions. Government takeover of health care and car companies, and his frivolous Keynesian stimulus that didn't stimulate anything except the price of gold, are decidedly liberal policies.

  No anyone with Obamas view is right authoritarian.
  
  The center line if you are not left you are not liberal. He may have a few liberal views but he is not even that close to the center of the line.
  
  You mean former President Bush's bailout right? He signed the first bailouts.

  Government takeover of health care and car companies, and his frivolous Keynesian stimulus that didn't stimulate anything except the price of gold, are decidedly liberal policies.

  Did I mention bailouts anywhere? Did I ever say that Bush wasn't fiscally liberal for that matter? You liberals never have an answer to points like this except that Bush did it too. Bush's policies continued the government takeover of our economy that began with FDR. Obama is just trying to finish the job in his first term.
• BCSbunk

  Cleveland Buck wrote:

  BCSbunk wrote:

  Cleveland Buck wrote:

  Nice work. I talk on other forums one in particular has many people from all over the world they find it very funny when someone calls President Obama a liberal.
  
  He is in the authoritarian right he is just a bit lower on the Authoritarian scale than some of the other candidates.

  Which is why you can't take his test as some kind of fact. Anyone with Obama's views is definitely liberal. It doesn't matter how he answered these questions. Government takeover of health care and car companies, and his frivolous Keynesian stimulus that didn't stimulate anything except the price of gold, are decidedly liberal policies.

  No anyone with Obamas view is right authoritarian.
  
  The center line if you are not left you are not liberal. He may have a few liberal views but he is not even that close to the center of the line.
  
  You mean former President Bush's bailout right? He signed the first bailouts.

  Government takeover of health care and car companies, and his frivolous Keynesian stimulus that didn't stimulate anything except the price of gold, are decidedly liberal policies.

  Did I mention bailouts anywhere? Did I ever say that Bush wasn't fiscally liberal for that matter? You liberals never have an answer to points like this except that Bush did it too. Bush's policies continued the government takeover of our economy that began with FDR. Obama is just trying to finish the job in his first term.

  Yes you did. POST #35 your quote. "That is my point. Marx would be proud of Barack's seizure of various private companies and industries. Obama isn't quite as far left as Marx, but he is closer to Marx than Milton Friedman, which is not what those scores show."
  
  Baracks seizure of various private companies? That is commonly referred to as the bailouts.
  
  Much to your dismay Obama is no liberal and really not even that close.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is indeed a liberal though. He is left of center and below the authoritiaran line.
  
  Obama may be "liberal" on a few issues but overall he is not a liberal at all. That is why the political compass covers all the topics not just a couple hot topic ones that people like to pidgeon hole people into.
  
  If there are 100 issues and someone votes 25 on the liberal side and 75 on the conservative side they are not a liberal in any way.
  
  Now I guess if someone voted on 100 issue and only 5 were on the liberal side the person that voted 25 would think that they were a liberal.
  
  That is why this test shows there is more to all the issues than left right and covers the topics governments tackle not just the "hot" topics.
  
  For example former President Bush and President Barack Obama are much closer in ideology to each other than Dennis Kucinich.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is a true and real liberal left of center and below the authoritarian line. There are very very few of him in American politics most are authoritarians and just slightly less conservative than others.
  
  There is a difference between liberal and less conservative. Calling someone who is less conservative liberal is limited thinking.
  
  For an example, compared to fascists everyone is a liberal, but is that true that they are really liberals? No they are just less authoritarian than them and are falsely labeled.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Yes you did. POST #35 your quote. "That is my point. Marx would be proud of Barack's seizure of various private companies and industries. Obama isn't quite as far left as Marx, but he is closer to Marx than Milton Friedman, which is not what those scores show."
  
  Baracks seizure of various private companies? That is commonly referred to as the bailouts.

  Ok, I guess the bailouts are included in there. Bush did it too. But Bush did not take over GM. Obama did. Bush did not take over the health care industry. Obama will. Bush's bailout, as stupid as it was, was to buy the toxic assets from the banks. Obama then took over the bailout, and decided to take over parts of these banks. You can't seriously tell me that Bush was the only one to take over private industries.
  
  Also, I don't really care about the labels. To me a liberal means a fiscal liberal. I don't care about their stance on abortion or gay marriage or whatever nonsense the government doesn't need to be involved in anyway. There is no doubt that Obama is a fiscal liberal.
• Websurfinbird

  

  Economic Left/Right: -4.38
  Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77
  
  
  
  Doesn't surprise me at all. And i certainly don't mind being on the same side as Gandhi.
• bigmanbt

  Your political compass
  Economic Left/Right: 2.88
  Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.05
  
  Don't know how to post an image but the numbers should suffice.
• Sage

  

  
• CharlieHog

  
• Footwedge

  Much to your dismay Obama is no liberal and really not even that close.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is indeed a liberal though. He is left of center and below the authoritiaran line.
  
  Obama may be "liberal" on a few issues but overall he is not a liberal at all. That is why the political compass covers all the topics not just a couple hot topic ones that people like to pidgeon hole people into.
  
  If there are 100 issues and someone votes 25 on the liberal side and 75 on the conservative side they are not a liberal in any way.
  
  Now I guess if someone voted on 100 issue and only 5 were on the liberal side the person that voted 25 would think that they were a liberal.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is a true and real liberal left of center and below the authoritarian line. There are very very few of him in American politics most are authoritarians and just slightly less conservative than others.

  
  Check out Obama's voting as a Senator. He was very, very, very, virtually across the board liberal.
  
  Fact check found him to be the 10th biggest liberal in 2006 and 16th most liberal in 2005.
  
  Given that there are 100 Senators, that put's Obama in the top 84th percentile in his voting record.
  
  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/748/
  
  I do agree though....that extreme right wingers labels "everyone else" as liberals.
  
  An example of this...Rush Limbaugh repeatedly calling Clinton a liberal. Clinton actually was rated as being more to the right when he governed Arkansas.
• jordo212000

  

  
  this is me. Thought I was more Libertarian than that would suggest...
• kathyjane

  i failed all three
• CenterBHSFan

  

  kathyjane wrote: i failed all three

  LOL! Define fail?
• BCSbunk

  Footwedge wrote:

  Much to your dismay Obama is no liberal and really not even that close.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is indeed a liberal though. He is left of center and below the authoritiaran line.
  
  Obama may be "liberal" on a few issues but overall he is not a liberal at all. That is why the political compass covers all the topics not just a couple hot topic ones that people like to pidgeon hole people into.
  
  If there are 100 issues and someone votes 25 on the liberal side and 75 on the conservative side they are not a liberal in any way.
  
  Now I guess if someone voted on 100 issue and only 5 were on the liberal side the person that voted 25 would think that they were a liberal.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is a true and real liberal left of center and below the authoritarian line. There are very very few of him in American politics most are authoritarians and just slightly less conservative than others.

  
  Check out Obama's voting as a Senator. He was very, very, very, virtually across the board liberal.
  
  Fact check found him to be the 10th biggest liberal in 2006 and 16th most liberal in 2005.
  
  Given that there are 100 Senators, that put's Obama in the top 84th percentile in his voting record.
  
  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/748/
  
  I do agree though....that extreme right wingers labels "everyone else" as liberals.
  
  An example of this...Rush Limbaugh repeatedly calling Clinton a liberal. Clinton actually was rated as being more to the right when he governed Arkansas.

  That is the problem I am talking about. Comparing him to Bush and him voting against Bush does not make him liberal.
  
  Bush is not the control of what a conservative is.
  
  Example. To Hitler who is extreme authoritarian everyone is a "liberal" or holds a libertarian position. Hitler is not the control so just because you are less authoritarian does not make you libertarian.
  
  Obama is less authoritarian than Bush and much of the republican party but that does not indicate he is therefore libertarain or liberal in his thinking. He is simply less authoritarian, but still an authoritarian.
  
  This test is about eliminating narrow thinking. Narrow thinking would be Republicans are conservative therefore democrats are liberal. This simply is not true when you take into account all the issues out there.
  
  IF someone wants to say compared to republicans Obama is a liberal I understand but that is not a complete picture of what is going on.
• CinciX12

  

  
• Gobuckeyes1

  BCSbunk wrote:

  Footwedge wrote:

  Much to your dismay Obama is no liberal and really not even that close.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is indeed a liberal though. He is left of center and below the authoritiaran line.
  
  Obama may be "liberal" on a few issues but overall he is not a liberal at all. That is why the political compass covers all the topics not just a couple hot topic ones that people like to pidgeon hole people into.
  
  If there are 100 issues and someone votes 25 on the liberal side and 75 on the conservative side they are not a liberal in any way.
  
  Now I guess if someone voted on 100 issue and only 5 were on the liberal side the person that voted 25 would think that they were a liberal.
  
  Dennis Kucinich is a true and real liberal left of center and below the authoritarian line. There are very very few of him in American politics most are authoritarians and just slightly less conservative than others.

  
  Check out Obama's voting as a Senator. He was very, very, very, virtually across the board liberal.
  
  Fact check found him to be the 10th biggest liberal in 2006 and 16th most liberal in 2005.
  
  Given that there are 100 Senators, that put's Obama in the top 84th percentile in his voting record.
  
  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/748/
  
  I do agree though....that extreme right wingers labels "everyone else" as liberals.
  
  An example of this...Rush Limbaugh repeatedly calling Clinton a liberal. Clinton actually was rated as being more to the right when he governed Arkansas.

  That is the problem I am talking about. Comparing him to Bush and him voting against Bush does not make him liberal.
  
  Bush is not the control of what a conservative is.
  
  Example. To Hitler who is extreme authoritarian everyone is a "liberal" or holds a libertarian position. Hitler is not the control so just because you are less authoritarian does not make you libertarian.
  
  Obama is less authoritarian than Bush and much of the republican party but that does not indicate he is therefore libertarain or liberal in his thinking. He is simply less authoritarian, but still an authoritarian.
  
  This test is about eliminating narrow thinking. Narrow thinking would be Republicans are conservative therefore democrats are liberal. This simply is not true when you take into account all the issues out there.
  
  IF someone wants to say compared to republicans Obama is a liberal I understand but that is not a complete picture of what is going on.

  So many people view politics as a dichotomy...in other words, "I am a conservative and you are not...that means you are a liberal."
  
  If this test does one thing, it helps to break that thinking.
• Big_Mirg_ZHS

  

  
• Mulva

  

  
  
  Economic Left/Right: -0.12
  Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.95
  
  My views haven't changed much over the last 2 years or so (since I last took this test).
• GoChiefs

  

  Economic Left/Right: -3.75
  Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 4.00
  
  
• dcrocks

  Economic Left/Right: -4.25
  Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31
  
  
• Footwedge

  I refuse to take this test. I've take similar tests in the past...and I view the questions themselves to be leading and fraudulent.
  
  Example...one must answer questions in the absolute...i.e. black or white, whenever gray is the more accurate responce.
  
  Answering in the positive regarding nation building and intervention inappropriately pushes one to the left. I find that to be grossly misleading. Old school conservatives are in fact conservatives...and do not believe in pre-emptive force, intervention, and nation building.
• bman618

  I consider the level of government power over the individual political line much more accurate than the left-right line BS that we use. On one side of the government power line is anarchy and the other is authoritarianism.
  
  This is where we were at following the Constitution ratification.
  
  Authoritarianism ...........X....Anarchy - Lots of self responsibility while having enough order controls to protect liberty from a Darwinian survival of the fittest.
  
  This is where we are now.
  
  Aurthoritarianism.....X..........Anarchy - Much more government control over the decision of the individual and a diminishing of natural rights.