I was visiting over at Lost in the Bozone where Crum had just taken his political compass test. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's a test wherein you answer a series of questions (multiple choice) and your answers are measured on a chart based on these criteria:
Here's my chart:
Hummm. It seems I've drifted to the left since the last time I did this a couple of years ago. Of course, the questions could be different than they were then or maybe watching the first Republican debate and Bill Maher in the same evening pushed me over the edge. Who knows.
Here's how I compare to others, although I'm not sure how some of them were tested:
It looks like me and Nelson Mandela would get along perfectly (although I know nothing, nor care anything about, rugby) and rubbing elbows with Gandhi and the Dalai Lama wouldn't be so bad either. And how about Pope Benedict. To the Right of Robert Mugabe! One too many wafers. I suppose Ronnie Reagan is simply off the charts.
I took this a couple of years ago, I was a bit farther over to the left than you, such as, right on the edge. Yes...I am on the edge, as my wife is wont to tell me. Please refrain.
ReplyDeleteCommunist!
ReplyDeleteI am left with you and Ghandi. Just as I suspected.
ReplyDeleteI'm with everyone so far.
ReplyDeleteWhat we have here is, a Movement!
ReplyDeleteEconomic Left/Right: -8.38
ReplyDeleteSocial Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.08
Yeah baby way left of progressive democrats!
Interesting, though not surprising. Looks like we're neighbors.
ReplyDeletePreaching to the choir guys, preaching to the choir.
ReplyDeleteI am about half-way between Mandela and the Dalai Lama, but I suspect I too have moved a little left over the years.
ReplyDeleteI have some reservations about the way that they evaluate the scores of world leaders, though. In particular, Mr Mugabe (since I have most experience, being a former subject of his). The vast chasm between what Mugabe preached in the 1980s and early 1990s, and what he has practiced in the 2000s, make such an evaluation very subjective. The Marxist rhetoric that he still occasionally spouts bears little relation to the manner in which he and his ruling cabal currently run his fiefdom. It's doubtful that he or any of the elite in Zimbabwe still believe in the socialist dreams of the early post-Independence era ... and one wonders whether some of them ever did. Perhaps with policians like Berlusconi it's more a case of "what you see is what you get."
Great insight Brett. Thanks. I would be very interested is some stories about your experiences.
ReplyDeleteOh. And please tell me which of your blogs would have such a story. I get lost in the genealogy.
ReplyDeleteNo stories yet, I'm afraid ... it's safer dealing with the more distant past.
ReplyDeleteEconomic Left/Right: -2.88
ReplyDeleteSocial Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.26
okay I'm in the same squared neighborhood as you...what does that make me? not quite as far left as you, so I'm not a communist yet! LOL
You are a centrist. that means a fence straddler. Come on girl. You've been neglecting your sins.
ReplyDeleteI am as leftist as you are but am one square more authoritarian.
ReplyDeletelgs... it's the scientist in you. :)
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