Fun Quiz; Where do you stand?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Economic leftist(centrally,or state controlled economy) or rightist(free market)?

Authoritarian or libertarian?

You might find out a thing or two about yourself as well as seeming contradictions in the traditional left/right political model we're all familiar with.


O.k., I'll go ahead and post my score;

Economic Left/Right: 4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.13

economic left/right::-2.00 social libertarian/authoritarian::1.38
jimbob,,I'm not sure what I am..can you decipher?

easyrider wrote:

economic left/right::-2.00 social libertarian/authoritarian::1.38
jimbob,,I'm not sure what I am..can you decipher?

Easyrider, you're pretty close to Dennis Kucinich on the graph,as they analyze it anyway. I'm not too confident in their plotting of many of the republicans as extreme "free market" types when they clearly favor a centrally controlled economy over a free market. They even have Hillary Clinton plotted as a free marketer!

here's the link in which they've plotted candidates from the 2008 election on their graph, the candidates didn't take the quiz but their positions were plotted from known policies and statements; http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008

Here's another link explaining the results and showing the coordinates of some well known, famous or infamous politicians; http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

If you want my take on your results;

economic left/right::-2.00 - You seem to tend towards a centrally controlled economy, moderately socialist. If I might make a mild suggestion, it may behoove you to spend more time reading articles at lewRockwell.com.

social libertarian/authoritarian::1.38 - You scored near Ron Paul here, which would make you what I consider to be moderately libertarian.

The reason I suggested spending some time at LewRockwell is because socialism is a cat's paw for authoritarianism in that it necessitates state control of what we consider private property and this involves a lot of rules as well as the force,or threat of force necessary to back that up. It's obvious from your libertarian leaning score that you really don't want that.

I hope that helps.

E-2.00
S/A-2.21

Thanks,jimbob