• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Political Compass Results

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
This thread just popped into my view - it seems I'm in good company in my quadrant.

chart
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
No surprise here:

Economic: -6.88
Libertarian: -5.23

(How the heck would I add an image?)
There was an option to display the image on a separate page. Having done that, I right clicked on the image and copied the URL and pasted it here.
 

crossfire

LHP Mercuræn Feminist Heretic Bully ☿
Premium Member
When you use the capital "L" in "Libertarian", we read this as the proper name for the party, ie, Libertarian Party.
(It's analogous to the difference between "democrat" & "Democrat".)
We are Laissez-faire types, in both the Americastanian & Canuckistanian parties.
So it makes sense that you'd meet some resistance for left leaning economics.

This is a good label because people won't know what it means, so they'll ask questions.

I often identify as a "liberal" because of its classical sense, & also in the dictionary sense that I'm permissive in just about all political areas. Alas, RF has deemed that I'm not one, so I can't post in that restricted forum (even when agreeing on social liberal issues). But it's odd that the RF definition of "libertarian" is so broad that it's fully 50% of the political spectrum, & includes the majority of posters (who took the test). It's so broad as to lose much meaning.

I'll show again a diagram which embodies the Libertarian perspective....
th

The Political Spectrum Diagram in the OP is Euro-centric,
so that appears to be the source of the terminology difference.
I'm a Yankee, not a Froggie or Kaut, so I prefer N Am usages.
Interesting. On the world's smallest political quiz, I'm on the opposite corner of the square you are on. However, on the Political Compass quiz, I'm in the area labelled as "greens," in a totally different quadrant than you.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Interesting. On the world's smallest political quiz, I'm on the opposite corner of the square you are on. However, on the Political Compass quiz, I'm in the area labelled as "greens," in a totally different quadrant than you.
Weird.
But I won't hold it against you.
I accept that normal intelligent posters won't be anywhere near me in the political spectrum.
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
Just took the politicalcompass test again, and my results remain pretty consistent with the past:

Economic -5.0
Social -6.15

I added them to the group scoring.

As in the past, the focus of most of the questions on national/international government and business leads to me being in the left-libertarian quadrant; if many of those questions had been instead focused on local/regional government and business, my responses would have probably been somewhere in the right-libertarian quadrant.

I also took the World's Smallest Political Quiz:

Personal issues 90%
Economic issues 40%,

This puts me in the liberal sector, but close to the libertarian sector. I do have issues with the questions, however. For example, I think military service should be voluntary; however, I think public service should be mandatory--primarily at the local and state levels. And, there are lots of kinds of "corporate welfare," some of which are better than others as incentives--but regardless, big businesses should be eligible for only very few limited opportunities, while small businesses should have lots of these. I'm against global free trade, but all for local and regional trade. Et cetera.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member
@Laika, don't feel too bad. When I identified as a Fascist and a National Socialist, it still kept sticking me on the leftist side, which shamed me. Lol. I actually don't think I've ever gotten a result outside of the leftist libertarian quadrant, oddly. Sometimes these quizzes can tell us things about ourselves we hadn't realized before. I'm just an anarcho-communist at heart.
 

Laika

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
@Laika, don't feel too bad. When I identified as a Fascist and a National Socialist, it still kept sticking me on the leftist side, which shamed me. Lol. I actually don't think I've ever gotten a result outside of the leftist libertarian quadrant, oddly. Sometimes these quizzes can tell us things about ourselves we hadn't realized before. I'm just an anarcho-communist at heart.

I was wondering where you'd come out actually, as @Rival is in the Authoritarian Left square. She's much more Communist than me. :D
 

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member
This diagram smells Eurocentric....look where "Liberalism" is.
American "liberals" are not so friendly towards capitalism.

The diagram for the Worlds's Smallest Political Quiz is much better for N Americastanians.
And it has numbers!
2014-09-20-worlds_smallest_quiz_image-thumb.jpg
American political definitions are stupid and a mess. It's using "liberal" in terms of classical liberalism which, of course, is closer to what we call libertarianism. Modern American "liberals" aren't really liberals by the more standard definition, since they believe in a bit more government regulation in terms of a social safety net.

The World's Smallest Political Quiz is basically libertarian propaganda, so of course you like it.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
American political definitions are stupid and a mess. It's using "liberal" in terms of classical liberalism which, of course, is closer to what we call libertarianism. Modern American "liberals" aren't really liberals by the more standard definition, since they believe in a bit more government regulation in terms of a social safety net.

The World's Smallest Political Quiz is basically libertarian propaganda, so of course you like it.
It's the best kind of propaganda!
Not because it's libertarian, but because lets the people who didn't know the leaned libertarian that they do.
It doesn't convert them, but it gives a couple choices regarding their orientation.....
1) Adopt the "libertarian" label, or....
2) Lose the pocket protector, & get therapy.

Anyway, The Nolan Chart just works best for N Americastanian political terminology.
Sure, the language is a mess, but we're stuck with it as it is until it evolves.
 
Top