Another political quiz. I thought this was better than the political compass.

[Guest ThePunisher]

Imagine what we could accomplish with a 12 pack.

We certainly would need to go to the war room bunker.

[Raoul]

Hmm doesn't want to load.

Edited January 12, 2012 by Raoul

[BigK]

No surprises...

Compass:

You are a far-right moderate social libertarian.

Right: 8.08, Libertarian: 2.18

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Hmm doesn't want to load.

Try harder:D My head's already exploded with all these quizzes. Might as well be you, too!

Aah, they are fun.

[Moped]

Just call me the Lefty Libertarian! This is actually about the same spot I was on the Political Compass Test. Can't deny that is about right.

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[Raoul]

Try harder:D My head's already exploded with all these quizzes. Might as well be you, too!

Aah, they are fun.

Right centrist with a hint of libertarian. Pretty good vintage...lol. I think that makes me a desireable demographic.

[Moped]

Just call me the Lefty Libertarian! This is actually about the same spot I was on the Political Compass Test. Can't deny that's about right.

Foreign Policy

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Edited January 13, 2012 by Moped

[1pointofview]

<b>My Political Views</b><br>I am a right moderate social libertarian<br>Right: 5.9, Libertarian: 1.53<br><img src="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/32x23.gif"><br><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html">Political Spectrum Quiz</a><br>

Edited January 13, 2012 by 1pointofview

[Guest Lester Weevils]

It would be interesting to know how they score the gun ban question. Does an anti-gun respondent score as a left-winger or as an authoritarian? Does a pro-gun respondent score as a right-winger or as a libertarian?

If the person designing the test happened to have "a certain point of view" (regardless of his most honest efforts to create an unbiased test) he might even score anti-gun as libertarian and pro-gun as authoritarian! Authoritarians are bad and guns are bad, therefore guns must be authoritarian...

[Guest pfries]

[Guest ArmyVeteran37214]

<b>My Political Views</b><br>I am a center-right social libertarian<br>Right: 2.4, Libertarian: 6.19<br><img src="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/25x32.gif"><br><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html">Political Spectrum Quiz</a><br>

<b>My Foreign Policy Views</b><br>Score: -7.27<br><img src="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/n14.gif"><br><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html">Political Spectrum Quiz</a><br>

<b>My Culture War Stance</b><br>Score: -2.75<br><img src="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/c36.gif"><br><a href="http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html">Political Spectrum Quiz</a><br>

[mav]

To those who are trying to post their image and are having trouble, look for the link right after the "scr=". If you hit the insert image button on the post tab and enter only that link, the image will post. For example I will use StreetWK05's results, the link is http://gotoquiz.com/politics/grid/25x32.gif . When I enter the link in the insert image tab, voila.

[TMF]

It would be interesting to know how they score the gun ban question. Does an anti-gun respondent score as a left-winger or as an authoritarian? Does a pro-gun respondent score as a right-winger or as a libertarian?

If the person designing the test happened to have "a certain point of view" (regardless of his most honest efforts to create an unbiased test) he might even score anti-gun as libertarian and pro-gun as authoritarian! Authoritarians are bad and guns are bad, therefore guns must be authoritarian...

I was wondering the same thing myself since my answeres to 2nd Amendment questions were just as strongly answered as responses to 1st Amendment questions. I would suspect that answering the way I did put me on two ends of the spectrum for supporting the same base document... that is what I suspect anyway.

[Mechanic_X]

My Political Views

I am a right social libertarian

Right: 7.36, Libertarian: 5.69

Political Spectrum Quiz

[Guest Lester Weevils]

I was wondering the same thing myself since my answeres to 2nd Amendment questions were just as strongly answered as responses to 1st Amendment questions. I would suspect that answering the way I did put me on two ends of the spectrum for supporting the same base document... that is what I suspect anyway.

Yep. There are so many ways to classify things. If attempting to make a scale that would work anywhere in the world, there is also conflict of terms. Supposedly in Brit-speak, a liberal is somebody who wants small government (as the word was also defined in the USA a hundred years ago). This Political Spectrum test seems more USA-centric than the Political Compass, but there are still many ways to classify things.

On individual rights, are the negative rights vs positive rights. USA is no stranger to people who believe in positive rights, for a very long time, though in other parts of the world positive rights are in the nations' constitutions. Disagreement about the validity of negative or positive rights is inevitable and maybe one is objectively "more wronger" than the other, but a full-spectrum test might need to account for both concepts.

The negative rights are an individual's rights not to be hassled by the gov (as in the USA bill of rights). Positive rights are things the gov (supposedly) owes each individual, such as the right to a guaranteed job or the right to guaranteed housing or the right to an annual 30 day paid vacation, etc.

People and places that believe in positive rights, might tend to classify belief in positive rights equally libertarian as the belief in negative rights.

In some schemes perhaps an anti-gun position could be interpreted as a libertarian position, because an anti-gun position would reinforce "the right of every citizen not to fear being shot by heavily armed thugs, psychotics, or crazy rednecks."

I still prefer the nolan coordinates which may be USA-centric, and only considers negative rights on both the personal freedom and economic freedom axis. Score values can only be positive numbers, ranging from zero percent where the gov controls everything, and everything which is not forbidden is mandatory, up to nominally 100 percent where the gov makes no interference at all and in practice there may as well be no gov at all.

In the nolan scale, extreme positive rights people would tend to score authoritarian, but they can still be placed in the classification space. But positive-rights advocates might believe that the scoring is skewed or gives misleading results.

In reading again about it the last few days, it is interesting that libertarians and even some right-wing and left-wing positions share conceptual space with individualist anarchists philosophers, though anarchists have a bad reputation and it isn't good to be labeled an anarchist. But some individualist anarchist philosophers can be sympathetically read on some points by left wingers, right wingers and libertarians (though they would agree with different individualist anarchist points).

There are also the (mind-bendingly) communitarian anarchist philosophers who seem to believe that there should be no law preventing people from having free housing or free food. Those guys believe that private property is a bad thing, but they are not exactly authoritarian commies (at least in theory). That belief set is strange to me and seemingly impractical in the real world, but some of the Occupy Wallstreet or Anti-globalist activists seem to share that state of mind. They don't exactly really want to take away other people's rights, they just want to share ownership of everything. Weird, but I suppose to them a belief in private property would be equally weird.

Dunno much about the old west, but the conflicts between free-range ranchers vs farmers fencing their land, almost seems to fit in that dichotomy? With the free-range ranchers as communitarian anarchists and the farmers as individualist anarchists? Which is strange because one might not immediately think of the free-range ranchers as "proto commies" and the farmers as "proto right wingers".

Edited January 13, 2012 by Lester Weevils

[hkgonra]

My Political Views

I am a far-right moderate social libertarian

Right: 9.55, Libertarian: 2.78

Political Spectrum Quiz

Edited January 13, 2012 by hkgonra

[wjh2657]

Pretty much dead on!