It's That Time Again! Political Compass 2014

Bit too much on corporate personhood (which I oppose)

Everyone here is a crybaby?

No you

Consider me a Jeffersonian through and through. By far my favorite President and founding father. Only other ff that comes close is Madison and of course Washington.

Does anybody here have the programming skill to make this? Maybe we could come up with a less stupid version...

This may surprise some. I've soured my views on corporate interests and have started to severely distrust The State as well. Also, I've started to come around to the left's view of voting for those that will steal from others for me.

The programming is the easy part of this kind of thing. Coming up with good questions and appropriate weightings for the answers to the questions is the hard part.

Pretty much where I usually come out on these things.

Hah! I'm more Libertarian than thou!

I think that people are disagreeing or surprised with their location because people, the media, and the parties have all screwed up the meanings of the words, and the site does try to use a more strict definition. For instance teatards are very far from libertarian and even border on fascist, but because they assume they are freedom loving people some call them libertarians.

No huge surprises here.

There's a new feature on the site allowing you to do a crowd-graph. Someone should knock up the Wordforge version.

Go for it!

Tapatalk is limiting my typing speed.

This explains why I can't ban you. The system recognizes your politics as being almost the same as mine. It apparently assumes we're the same person, and obviously I can't ban myself.

Someone else.

You're more to the left of the spectrum, then?

One of the guys over at TBBS recommended this site: http://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

There's a UK version and a US version. Take whichever one applies to you. While I'm not a fan of siding with political parties, the questions are more nuanced, and even allow you to make your own answers.

I took the US test. These were my results, which surprised me not in the least:




Just for the fun of it, I also went back through and input all of the political views I had when I first voted (2000). I was 20 at the time, and still a conservative Christian:



That's a hell of a difference over 14 years!

Hm, this should be interesting, since I'm socially liberal, pro-Obamacare, pro-Israel, pro-UN, fairly hawkish on defense, anti-NSA spying on Americans, pro-NSA spying on other countries' governments, and have no problem with the concept of corporate personhood...

Hmm, for some reason it gave me all the candidates for where I live, instead of parties.

U.S. Senate
Democrat: 83%
Green: 78%
Libertarian: 58%
Republican: 44%

U.S. Congress
Democrat: 76%
Libertarian: 58%
Republican: 31%

Governor
Green: 78%
Democrat: 73%
Libertarian: 58%
Republican: 28%

The answers for Congress and Governor are a little weird, because I can't stand the Republican candidate for Congress, but I actually do support the Republican candidate for governor and plan on voting for him.

I think you have to click the results button to see it listed by party.

almost dead-center of the graph. That said, there really needed to be a "neither agree nor disagree" on the questions.
A lot of them really make me think "it depends on the situation."
Economic Left/Right: -1.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.15

That's the downside to the political compass test. Usually, my answer is something along the lines of "yes, but..." or "no, except...", but the test doesn't offer that option. The new one I listed does, though.

I got....




But I didn't entlrey like the survey because a number of the questions asked me to "add my own stance" and it's clear that those answers weren't counted as part of the assessment, particularly as my answers on the EU, civil liberties legislation and immigration were pretty far from the views held by UKIP.

Nonetheless I found it interesting that it couldn't much me beyond 60% to any of the current parties. A vindication perhaps of my long held intention never to side with a poltiical slant "just because".

My results:

Your Party Affiliation
This is how you side with each party...

83%
Constitution Party
on domestic policy, economic, immigration, healthcare, and education issues

Libertarians
81%
on domestic policy, economic, healthcare, education, and immigration issues

80%
Republicans
on domestic policy, economic, immigration, social, foreign policy, healthcare, and education issues
79%
Conservative Party
on economic, immigration, foreign policy, healthcare, and education issues
70%
Democrats
on domestic policy, environmental, and social issues
64%
Green Party
on environmental issues
18%
Socialist
on no major issues

So apparently if I were British, this is how I'd probably vote.

Constitution Party 77%
Democratic Party 77%
Green Party 75%
Republican Party 67%
Libertarians 62%
Socailists 42%

It got the candidates pretty much correct in terms of who I plan to vote for. The only one they got wrong was our state senate race, and that's because the Democrats aren't running a candidate. They didn't include the independent candidate (who I plan to vote for), so it defaulted to the Republican.

I got this.

Start your own political party! There's no possible way you could do any worse than the two we have.

Well the who to vote for thing was a bust, since it thought I was in Kansas. I'm actually in Virginia at the moment, but needless to say, I already know how I'll vote on Tuesday. Here's the party breakdown: