Political Compass 2021

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Inspired by @ZenGiraffe's suggestion in the MB thread

Economic Left/Right: -6.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.82​


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I also did isidewith and got (You can easily change the country on this):


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Economic Left/Right: -1.0​

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.41​

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Strong and stable centre :ChiaraWink:
 
I swear when I was 18 and first did this, I was about where Iguana is. I thought we drifted right as we got older, not left?
 
How is it even possible to get that high on the libertarian side? It would be like living in chaos. :greta:
 
RaspberrySwirl said:
How is it even possible to get that high on the libertarian side? It would be like living in chaos. :greta:
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It's social libertarianism. One of my issues with political compass is that it doesn't measure your support for state intervention very well, lumping it in with economic left right, as I would end up very pro intervention because Free Markets are evil.
 
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It's social libertarianism. One of my issues with political compass is that it doesn't measure your support for state intervention very well, as I would end up very pro intervention because Free Markets are evil.
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Yeah, I see what you mean. I guess state intervention vs free market is on the left/right scale.

But even social liberties need regulations (and protection) or else we end up with chaos and people taking those liberties away from us.
 
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Yeah, I see what you mean. I guess state intervention vs free market is on the left/right scale.

But even social liberties need regulations (and protection) or else we end up with chaos and people taking those liberties away from us.
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The problem is it asks "do you support the death penalty?" (no) and "should prisoners have the vote?" (yes), "should the gays have sex?" (only if I can watch), but doesn't get into things like restorative justice, and the purpose of the criminal justice system. I am by no means actually a social libertarian, the state of course has a role to play in upholding the values I see as important, but then a two axis diagram is always going to be super simplified.

Though I do think using the word libertarian there should probably be looked at.
 
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The problem is it asks "do you support the death penalty?" (no) and "should prisoners have the vote?" (yes), "should the gays have sex?" (only if I can watch), but doesn't get into things like restorative justice, and the purpose of the criminal justice system. I am by no means actually a social libertarian, the state of course has a role to play in upholding the values I see as important, but then a two axis diagram is always going to be super simplified.

Though I do think using the word libertarian there should probably be looked at.
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Agreed, that’s why this compass doesn’t really work. I tend to avoid the ”strongly” option which I guess is why I end up more in the middle, but I would have prefered an even more middle option where you neither agree nor disagree.
 
Oh, is this the point where I rant about this question?

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Of course that specifically is a significant advantage of a one party state! But I do not support one party states. So do you answer the exact question asked, or do you make an assumption on what the question is actually asking, and answer that?
 
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Of course that specifically is a significant advantage of a one party state! But I do not support one party states. So do you answer the exact question asked, or do you make an assumption on what the question is actually asking, and answer that?
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The correct thing would be to answer the question; ie of course a one party state has a significant advantage (look at China, Singapore…) but I guess most people ”strongly disagree” because they’re against a one party state.
 

Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.85​

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On the isidewith UK version, I was like 80% SNP :disco: To think I used to semi-stan the coalition and was against Scottish independence but now I have all of Queen Nic's albums!
 
I remember back in '10 a aged queen telling me never to trust the Tories (I voted Lib Dem that year), and I was very "that's a very old fashioned POV babe". Cut to me ten years later wishing death to the Tories and making a blood oath to myself that I will always vote against them in any configuration in the future.
 
I don’t know how I could get Libertarian though considering I voted againt privatising the NHS and railroads?
 
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I also agree with the previous comments about 'libertarian' being used here. I strongly believe in state intervention, busting monopolies, and a strong social safety net, but I'm classed as a libertarian because I think women should have access to reproductive rights and gays should be able to marry? I rebuke this.
 
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