Since its election time over in the US, Political Compass Thread!

I thought it might be interesting to see a cross-section of people's political views, so go and take the test at http://www.politicalcompass.org/, post your results here and we'll have a share.

Note: this is not a place to argue about politics.

Mine, slightly more left than I expected.

Eh, I don't want to fill out a 6 page survey. I already know that I lean left.

Last time I took that, I was almost exactly in the middle, about one square left and one square down.

Deal with it.

@A_Talking_Donkey: That's what happens when you put in "Hitler" as the answer to all the questions.

not surprised.

I thought a number of the questions were kind of dumb/could have been worded better.

Had one of these threads a while back. I don't believe I've changed, so I'll just post my old result. 

@uniform: I did a quick search and the only one I could find was from 2008, apologies if this is a well-worn topic.

So, apparently I prefer anarchy and think the Dalai Lama is pretty cool?

I didn't really like the questions, many of them were unclear and seemed like none of the answers accurately described my views but here we go.

I expected to end up a bit lower but well, what do you know.

Free market anarchism all the way, baby!

@uniform: I did a quick search and the only one I could find was from 2008, apologies if this is a well-worn topic.

I'm in pretty much exactly the same place as I was the last time I took this test. Not exactly the 'edgiest' score by Internet standards, but I'm happy with it.

@Ravenlight said:

So, apparently I prefer anarchy and think the Dalai Lama is pretty cool?

Scary. That's EXACTLY where I ended up.

I don't like this quiz, though. There needs to be another option, neither agree nor disagree. I would have chosen that a few times.

Somewhat left and very libertarian. Sounds accurate.

Some of those questions are really stupid. Like the one asking if you should be automatically loyal to your country. I get that it's a liberal stereotype that they aren't patriotic, so I wonder if that's what it's looking for.

@BoG said:

Scary. That's EXACTLY where I ended up.

I don't like this quiz, though. There needs to be another option, neither agree nor disagree. I would have chosen that a few times.

Agreed, a lot of the questions were too binary and didn't let me accurately represent my opinion.

The problem is that it lacks a Z axis, for those who are politically conservative but socially liberal. For example being pro-marijuana legalisation does not mean you support libertarianism.

Well, I would think there are going to be a lot of black and white or stereotypical questions in a survey like this anyway; I think you'd be hard pressed to find one that isn't, but I could be wrong. I generally don't like to label the entirety of my viewpoint with one or two words since deciding on how to react to something is situational for me, but I do like taking surveys:

@Inkerman said:

The problem is that it lacks a Z axis, for those who are politically conservative but socially liberal. For example being pro-marijuana legalisation does not mean you support libertarianism.

Well being pro-marijuana means you are more for the individual making his own choice, which is a libertarian value.

@BoG said:

@Ravenlight said:

So, apparently I prefer anarchy and think the Dalai Lama is pretty cool?

Scary. That's EXACTLY where I ended up.

I don't like this quiz, though. There needs to be another option, neither agree nor disagree. I would have chosen that a few times.

You know what's even more scary? How different it is from the last time you took the political compass.

I was just going to dig up that thread and post my old one since I couldn't be bothered to take the test again, but now I'm going to retake it to see if mine has changed.

@MattyFTM said:

You know what's even more scary? How different it is from the last time you took the political compass.

I was just going to dig up that thread and post my old one since I couldn't be bothered to take the test again, but now I'm going to retake it to see if mine has changed.

@BoG is obviously a replicant. It's the only explanation.

@Ravenlight said:

@BoG said:

Scary. That's EXACTLY where I ended up.

I don't like this quiz, though. There needs to be another option, neither agree nor disagree. I would have chosen that a few times.

Agreed, a lot of the questions were too binary and didn't let me accurately represent my opinion.

It was definitely missing the "Neither agree nor disagree" option.

@Inkerman said:

The problem is that it lacks a Z axis, for those who are politically conservative but socially liberal. For example being pro-marijuana legalisation does not mean you support libertarianism.

Libertarianism doesn't automatically mean the libertarian party, I think.

mine, which is basically slightly more libertarian than ghandi

@Hitchenson said:

Mine exactly. Let's be best friends.

OK, so here is mine:

And mine from 4 years ago in this thread:

So I've got even more left wing (which I didn't really think was possible) and slightly less libertarian.

@MattyFTM: @Ravenlight: I've changed a lot in 4 years. I was in high school when I made that topic the first time. I actually read books now!

I would definitely say that the survey in question is a little too binary, but I would also remind people that it's meant to be an approximation and not an exact pinpoint of where you stand.

That said, this doesn't particularly surprise me:

Yep, looks about right to me. Close to the center, but leaning to the libertarian left.

I'm just going to say I'd be in the bottom left somewhere, had I the wherewithal to bother with this quiz.

Yep, about right.

I'm slightly less socially liberal than I used to be, I remember doing this previously & ending up with a score somewhere around -9.5/-9.5. The ultimate political idealist would be how I'd phrase my position.

But I will say that while I think my result is a pretty accurate summing up of my own political views (in that I'd class myself at the very least as influenced by anarchist thinkers if not an actual believer in anarchism working in a large scale in the real world) some of the question are a bit leading & most people do tend to end up in the bottom left quadrant, though I'm not sure if that says something about the people of the internet generation compared to actual politicians or just that the scale is a bit whacked.

@SMTDante89 said:

I got the exact same thing.

I'm a little "I don't know, maybe? No. ...Yes?" on the death penalty, but ultimately I just said "Sure." That might affect this a bit, but I don't want to take the survey again.

Seems about right, though I wish there was an option between Yes and No. Sometimes I just didn't really have an opinion.

Look at all these pinkies. My god, Giant Bomb, how do you sleep with yourself?

This quiz needed a neutral position on some of the questions.

Pretty much what I expected, except I thought I'd be lower on the Y-axis.

@LiquidPrince: I agree. I don't care whether or not mothers are homemakers. I don't think that's any of my business in the first place.

@scalpel: The thing is the republican party hasnt really been economicly conservative for a while. They borrowed money they didn't have off China to fund wars, that pretty much goes against everything conservative IMO.

@Bourbon_Warrior: Fitting, then, that I'm not a Republican.

Oh, and these are the presidential candidates' position acoording to the site.

I seem to fit in the norm here.

Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers.

Oh, some of these questions! :3

I don't like these questions, or the fact that you can't be neutral about most of them. But yeah, that pretty much represents my Australian socialist values.

@Bwast said:

@Hitchenson said:

Mine exactly. Let's be best friends.

Mine as well.

@imsh_pl: I wonder what their reasoning was placing Jill Stein lower than Johnson on the Y-axis.