Where do you fit on this political scale?

LOL. I was so far to the left on the scale, I had to take a taxi to get there.

Liberal Democrat, but..I don’t affiliate with any party. I am primarily liberally apolitical if I had to put a label on my views. I simply care, very little and now that Trump is our ignoble leader if I want to maintain my health I have to detatch. Bad for my blood pressure and appetite. haha

I am quite far into Liberal Democrat territory. No surprise there.

Conservative Republican

This test is awfully limited.
No questions about the Unconditional Basic Income, or nationalisation of industries, or free higher education, and for the right wingers, questions about establishing concentration camps, exterminating muslims, or waging war for land and resources.

Moderate republican but it was a very, very shitty test. A couple of questions I could have been either way on and would have put me more in the center.

Their poll shows me on the very end of their “Liberal” scale, farther left from it’s Liberal Democrat” than the distance between any two other labels on their scale. But the test seems chock full of their assumptions about what the questions and answers should be, and the interpretation of those.

I also notice that the title is about “Party” and their scale is one-dimensional with “Independent” BETWEEN Democrat and Republican. That is the horrible bias that the corporate news media and conventional thinking use, which has us stuck in a false dichotomy.

To assess and include my actual views, a survey would need far more environmental questions and answers, and many questions about political corruption and how much contempt one holds for both &$%#@ US political parties, and the voting system itself, and how little one relates to the terms “liberal”, “conservative”, “left”, “right”, etc. And much more.

I’m sure you’re shocked.

I’‘m on top of the arrow at the extreme left edge of the scale. Kind of funny. Definitely an American test. It’s right, far right and out of sight right.

Doesn’t really reflect the true political spectrum.

Looks like @Seek and I are trying to sit on the same chair.

Not a perfect test/compass but it’s one of the better ones out there – more global in understanding of terms and the spectrum. Their FAQ page is good.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

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My results:

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92

I have moved further into left libertarianism than when I first did this 15 or so years ago (NYT reviewed it in 2003 and I was on their political forum starting in 1997/8).

Hehe @BellaB, I was just taking that test and about to post it, too!

I got:
Economic Left/Right: -4.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.46

(On the Pew Research test, I banged the left edge.)

Hey! Why is there a little tiny patch of blue to the left of me?
On the other one, a little below Gandhi.

Economic Left/Right: -5.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13

It says I’m a liberal democrat, not the very top, but closer down towards average. I think average is more accurate.

That Pew Research test was surprisingly un-Pew quality in my opinion. I wonder what they expect to accomplish by gathering data with such a simple, ambiguous test.

Only in the States am I considered so far left. In Europe I would be considered left of center. This tells me that the US has become so far right that they have become unrealistic and out of step in their views compared to the rest of the world. Fifty years ago, I would have been considered a Kennedy Liberal in the States. We are goosestepping into dangerous territory and those of our population who’ve not experienced America much longer than 35 years don’t even realize it, nor are they able to see it. But a few sense it despite the revisionism of our history since the Reagan era.

I like Bella’s test better, but still, some of the questions were a bit uncomfortable when one thinks how the answers may be interpreted.

Economic Left/Right: -4.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

One square on the graph right of Ghandi. I can live with that. But I don’t like the Libertarian label at all. I see neither Ghandi nor I anywhere near the Libertarian camp as it is interpreted in the States. Possibly by the Euro definition.

Both Ghandi and I were committed to Social Democracy in this crowded and hungry world. And that is the simplest and most accurate description for where I stand.

Liberal Democrat,

@Espiritus_Corvus , the point of the politicalcompass grid is that it is global, not American.

Did you take a look at the FAQ page on that site? They’ve added quite a few questions and responses over the years. You may find some of them interesting.

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I’ve found it fascinating to look at the various elections they’ve looked at on politicalcompass. I don’t always land where I think I will. A very good friend of mine is a libertarian anarchist. I couldn’t make any sense of that definition til I’d done some reading that started at politicalcompass and continues to expand.

If I had balls, they’d be blue.

I nearly fall off the political compass chart.

If this test had included many questions that others mentioned here, I would not have scored so far on the extreme left. I know people who politically are there and they say I am a conservative. However, I consider myself either a conservative liberal or a liberal conservative.

The original quiz was crap.

On the other quiz referenced, I scored:
Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41
pretty strongly in the Liberal Libertarian quadrant.

Seek’s result is why I like politicalcompass. The results from the OP made us seem as if we were the same politically. The politicalcompass teases things out further and doesn’t reflect the overall slide of American politics to the right.

Liberal democrat, which is wrong. I am a moderate.