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By: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » A False Dichotomy

PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » A False Dichotomy — Tue, 21 Feb 2024 16:18:27 +0000

[...] ervative” mean both in general terms and in the American political context (although I have noted before that I am not all that happy with those labels). Avoiding that discussion for at least th [...]

By: Fruits and Votes

Fruits and Votes — Sat, 29 Oct 2024 21:32:22 +0000

Sanders, socialism, and the ideological spectrum

Why would I like better a Democratic party that no longer had Maxine Waters, Dennis Kucinich, Barney Frank, and other leftists, if I am a social democrat (i.e. on the “left”) myself?

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 26 Sep 2024 16:54:33 +0000

Does anyone else wonder why their graph puts the left on the right?

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 25 Sep 2024 21:27:32 +0000

Hmmm…. It called me Social Liberal and Economic moderate… a Centrist.. i dont really agree with that. The questions I don’t think were fair at all.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 25 Sep 2024 17:50:39 +0000

Well, I took THE TEST. Agreed it needs a neutral category for the questions. For example, it asks if you feel guilty when you shop at large national chains. I don’t shop at them. There were others like that, too.

Anyway, it said I am 75% social liberal and 18% economic liberal. Seems not too far off, but if I had looked at their ideological graph before taking the test, I would have put myself a bit higher on the econ dimension than where they put me–on the border of “Democrat” and “socialist.” That would make more sense than the label the test gave me (socialist), because I always define myself as somewhere between a social democrat and a green.

But for a test with no nuance whatsoever, I think it did reasonably well. A lot better than I thought it would do as I was taking it.

One final thought on this: In their two dimensional ideological space, why does”totalitarian” extend almost all the way to the center? It makes no sense, especially since totalitarian can be compatible with either “fascist” or “socialist” and is thus not really an ideology, per se, but a political technique for imposing one.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 25 Sep 2024 17:25:19 +0000

Cupid on-line dating, huh? Doesn’t Sherry monitor your one-line habits?

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Sun, 25 Sep 2024 02:36:10 +0000

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By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 25 Sep 2024 02:25:48 +0000

I was a social liberal and an economic liberal. Best described as a Socialist. No big surprises there I guess.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 25 Sep 2024 02:13:12 +0000

If you change “Neutral” to “I Could care Less”, I could go for it.

By: Bryan S.

Bryan S. — Sun, 25 Sep 2024 02:08:17 +0000

I was almost dead center on the original version of this test, the “political compass” test. Of course, “neutral” is really a weasel option and hardly worth putting as an option.