I doubt I will ever tire of these things – what do you think about this? And this? And how extreme are you on that? I think this! I think that! I, like, TOTALLY disagree with that. Ooh – you are HERE on the political compass! You are a Liberal / Libertarian!
Well bugger me.
There is another, nu-compass, this time supposedly to cater for the rather fun US Presidential stuff. Same formula – you say what you think about ‘issues’ and it says where you are on the usual two-dimensional map – plus it tells you which candidate you are closest to.
Mused, I had, before taking this test upon why I didn’t like any of the candidates; and whilst the value of these generalising and absurdly-simplistic compass things is questionable, this one appears to depict an explanation.
None of the candidates are in what I would perceive as the liberal quarter – unless you count Ron Paul who, in my opinion, is not really a liberal (or even ‘libertarian’). This is him on abortion:
Paul calls himself "strongly pro-life", "an unshakable foe of abortion" and believes government regulation of medical decisions about maternal or fetal health is constitutional and "best handled at the state level".
[Sources: a friend, the internet]
Way to go Ronny, more ‘government regulation’ of people’s bodies is surely the liberal / libertarian way forward.
This example in itself also represents the tomarrto – tomayto schism between British and US politics. Even this compass game got a bit dull due to what I perceive as non-issues. Americans talk a lot about ‘guns’, which are little personalised weapons they apparently need to protect their land from indigenous folk, Osama Bin Laden and Al Gore. They also talk a lot about ‘jobs’, which apparently means ‘employment’.
Go play the game - http://www.electoralcompass.com/
1 comments:
I got Clinton, apparently I'm not socially "progressive" enough to be Obama. I gave answers largely in support of gun rights. my humble opinion is that the British public should be allowed to carry arms and it should be more widespread.
Though I hardly think being on the economic "left" in American terms makes me a socialist sympathiser. Bit of a silly quiz all round, really.
My own preference is for The World's Smallest Political Quiz. On it, I got half way between left-liberal and libertarian. Justin Hinchcliffe managed to get exactly the same score as me, which was quite ironic.
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