The Political Preference Test....Are you really what you say you are?

[ruby slippers]

Just for the curious....here is a neat little test to make sure that you are loyal to the correct party. I assume you are, but for the Independents on here, it might be eye-opening.

Have fun!

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

[TexasObserver]

1. left libertarian

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.13

[TahitiNut]

77. ***** Here's How 511 DUers Scored *****

[muryan]

78. -5.9, -7.8

so I fall within the majority of DU

[bhikkhu]

2. -6.25, -6.46. Leftist Libertarian. Whose head now hurts.

That's some test.

[ruby slippers]

3. yeah, but it made you be honest, didn't it and think how you really feel?

[Bobbieo]

4. I'm with Ghandi!

[dana_b]

6. good company!! n/t

[ClayZ]

24. Me too!

K and R

[Indenturedebtor]

30. Yeah I took this a couple weeks back - Ghandi too.

Always thought he was a groovy dude ;)

[GihrenZabi]

48. Me too?

Apparently Ghandi and Nelson Mandela and I would all get along very well together...

[TBF]

56. Same here -6.50/-6.51

I wasn't always this liberal. I think George Bush has driven me crazy. But thankfully I'm in good company with Ghandi and y'all! ;)

[Blondiegrrl]

63. Same here. It amazes me how the freepers claim the Democratic candidates

are just sooooooooooooo left wing when in fact they're barely left of center.

[NotThisTime]

67. I'm just a notch or two to the right of Ghandi

[bhikkhu]

14. I think so, but there are many possible "good" systems.

And if history teaches anything it is that there is no stable point of rest and that change proceeds regardless of intent, or even of the goodness of one moment in time over the next. In any test there is a desire to answer according to expectations, as well a a desire to demonstrate individuality...anyway, it is late. Thanks for the food for thought!

[grantcart]

17. -6.38 - 5.38

[cliffordu]

21. Grantcart, How did I know...?

[dana_b]

5. fun test!

It can't be right though - or I LIED - because according to my results, I should be running around screaming "anarchy!!"

Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

[woolldog]

8. communist!

;-)

[woolldog]

7. left/libertarian (-4.38/ -5.85)

[dana_b]

15. calling ME a communist...

ok, comrade!!
:hi:

[DearAbby]

9. Color me shocked

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79

[ruby slippers]

50. or validated.....

[some guy]

10. ~

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41

[cliffordu]

11. Here's mine!! -7.62, -6.82

it won't show up.....the image is illegal....


BUT.....

-7.62 left

-6.82 libertarian


I expect Homeland Security to get here any minute.....

Ghandi was a fascist.

[scheming daemons]

12. Here's me

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.25&soc=-4.97


-3.25 and -4.97


I'm Ghandi.

[DerekJ]

16. my numbers are close to Ghandi too.

[dana_b]

18. very nice to meet you!

I'm Karl Marx.

[scheming daemons]

19. Are you sure you're not Groucho Marx?

;-)

[dana_b]

25. oh, haha

coming from a little guy who wore a toga in India! :P

[redstate_democrat]

26. lol! I just choked on my water.

[dana_b]

35. careful!!

[JustinL]

13. centrist/libertarian (-0.12, -8.62)

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Most of DU sits on the the lower left/left-libertarian quadrant. I know I do. Someone's got a graph.

I don't have the energy to search for it right now.

And it bears reminding (as always when we start talking about the political compass and the dread "l" word) that small-l libertarianism the Philosophy is NOT synonymous with the big-L Libertarian PARTY in the United States.

But it is worth bearing in mind that most liberal Democrats support individual freedom, civil liberties, think waging "wars" to tell consenting adults what they can or can't do with their own bodies (a la the war on drugs) is a waste of time, etc.

Our party leadership and conventional wisdom poo-bahs should take notice. There is a strong streak in the American electorate that wants government OUT of the bedrooms and bloodstreams of consenting adults.

[redstate_democrat]

22. Economic Left/Right: -4.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.05

[RC]

44. My chart looks pretty close to yours.

Too bad so many in our government are in the upper right where money, not people is of prime importance.

[monomach]

23. -4.75, -1.18 - closest to ghandi...a Centrist Socialist?

[scheming daemons]

27. Seems that Obama supporters are a lot like Ghandi.....

Wonder what Clinton supporters are most like?

[RC]

45. Hillary supporters are in the upper right corner with bu$h, Cheney, etc.

I saw this same chart where they were included and Hillary was right up there with them.

[highplainsdem]

68. Left-Libertarian Hillary supporter here. Took the test in 2005, too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4973064

[Oak2004]

28. A definite commie anarchist type here ;)

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

[RichardRay]

29. -6.38/-5.90 - Me & HHDL :-)

It would be sort of interesting to build a little bot to take the test a few thousand times and record the output for a range of answers and do a sensitivity analysis on the answers to some of those questions.

[McCamy Taylor]

31. I don't take tests. That makes me an anarchist, I guess.

[anonymous171]

32. Economic Left/Right: -5.75. Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-5.75&soc=-3.54

[quakerboy]

33. I always knew I had libertarian tendancys

-8.62, -5.54

[WA98070]

34. I always thought that a Libertarian- Socialist was an oxymoron....

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.74

[sakura]

36. -8.12, -7.59

Down there with the Dalai Lama (one of my heroes)!

[dbmk]

37. -5.62 / -6.15

Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

I am freakin' Dalai Lama! :)

[mrreowwr_kittty]

38. I'm right there with the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. No surprise.

I'm just a little more "left" than the average person!

[Speck Tater]

39. Put me with the Dalai Lama too. (P.S., I'm a lifelong Buddhist) NT

[beac]

40. This was an interesting test to take. Thanks for sharing.

And I'm happy with my results too:

Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08


So, I'm off to sow some leftist anarchy now... toodles! ;)

[JoFerret]

41. Green quadrant

to the left of Gandhi

[chemp]

42. I've taken this many times.

The questions change occasionally to reflect the times.

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

To the left of Ghandi.

[ruby slippers]

51. Yeah, I wondered about the "some people are unlucky" question....

not sure how that fits in this equation.

[billyoc]

43. -10.00 -7.90

A perfect 10! :woohoo:

[ruby slippers]

52. wow, you are almost off the chart, right?

[billyoc]

75. haha, that's me. Off the chart.

:rofl:

[Honeycombe8]

46. Bad questions. They're broad generalizations whose meanings could mean...

several things.

Better for questions to be more specific, in order to get accurate answers. Things are rarely this starkly black or white.

I couldn't even get thru the questions. I found myself saying, "What the heck does THAT mean?" or "Under what circumstances" or "According to who?"

[ruby slippers]

53. well, then, at least we know that you are a number 1 on the 4Mat wheel......

[LWolf]

47. I'm a left libertarian.

Slightly further left, and a chunk further south, than Gandhi.

Which is probably why most Democratic candidates do not appeal to me. Most are in the opposite quadrant.

[Howler]

49. whoa!

I'm left of Ghandi. Economic -7.75 social libertarian/authoritarian -6.15

[Labors of Hercules]

54. Dad always said I was out left field...

4 clicks past Ghandi and turn left. *GRIN*

[Milo_Bloom]

55. Me and the Dalai Lama

Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59

[Kaylee]

57. Economic Left: -5.12; Social Libertarian: -5.79

I must be doing something right since I am right there with Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.:thumbsup:

[lastliberalintexas]

58. Wow, we have some conservative posters here

When I took that test a few years ago, I scored a -9.8 Econ and a -9.4 Auth. I guess the scores posted in this thread shouldn't surprise me too much, but I thought DUers used to score far more liberal than the sample shown in this thread.

[frickaline]

59. -6.25 / -5.03 leftist libertarian for me, but now I need some advil

:banghead: ow!

[gblady]

60. in good company.....

economic left/right -6.38
social libertarian/authoritarian -6.72

[Critters2]

61. Economic Left/Right: -8.50, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51 nt

[AZBlue]

62. -4.12, -4.62

[Solon]

64. -10 and around -9...

Picture of my graph here:

[TeamsterDem]

65. I disagree with my results: -6.12, -3.90

I don't know what I answered to make the social side so low (I thought it'd be around -6), but maybe I didn't understand one of the questions or read too much into them. For example the one about a one-party state having the "significant advantage" of not having partisan blockades is undoubtedly true. I don't agree with a one-party state or think it's a good thing, but that is an "advantage" in the purest sense of the word "advantage."

[FlyingSquirrel]

66. -7.25 Economic, -8.15 Libertarian (Hi Mr. Ghandi, Mandela & Dalai Lama!)

I'm about as far left as Ghandi and Nelson Mandela, and more libertarian than all of 'em!

lol

Fun stuff

[highplainsdem]

69. Check the Primaries 2008 page there- of the Dems, the ONLY Left-Libertarian is Kucinich:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008


The Political Compass website has Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Biden, Richardson and Dodd clustered in the Right-Authoritarian quadrant, though not as far right or as authoritarian as the Republicans.

Gravel is Right-Libertarian.

Kucinich alone is Left-Libertarian.

[XemaSab]

70. -7.5, -6

Eh, some nights you want a weak state, other nights notsomuch. :shrug:

[blonndee]

71. -7.50; -6.67

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.67

[XemaSab]

72. I note the absence of certain of our posters..

:shrug:

[stillcool]

73. I'd like to see our..

Congress-critters results.
-8.12 -8.82

[Zero Division]

74. Economic: -6.62; Social: -7.54

[crankychatter]

76. I always knew that Dalai Lama was a pretty smart guy

:-)

[PermanentRevolution]

79. -9.38, -7.28

Which is, I think, exactly what I got the last time I took this.

At least I'm consistent.

[swishyfeet]

80. Dead center of the green box here nt

[Iggo]

81. Yikes! -8.25, -8.36.

Farther out there than the Dalai Lama, Mandela, or frikin' Gandhi.