George Bollschweiler Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Is Tim Gratz as far right as John sees him and is John really as liberal and left as he thinks? Where do you belong to? Are you a neighbour of Nelson Mandela or do you prefer to eat pasta with Silvio Berlusconi ? Are you tough enough to bear the truth? If you want to know the answers click below http://www.politicalcompass.org/ I found myself next to the guy who took off his clothes and wrapped himself in a blanket. George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Is Tim Gratz as far right as John sees him and is John really as liberal and left as he thinks? Where do you belong to? Are you a neighbour of Nelson Mandela or do you prefer to eat pasta with Silvio Berlusconi ? Are you tough enough to bear the truth? If you want to know the answers click below http://www.politicalcompass.org/ I found myself next to the guy who took off his clothes and wrapped himself in a blanket. George same, though I would have liked a neutral option on some of the q's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Economic Left/Right: -8.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54 The nearest person to me on the chart was the Dalia Lama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 (edited) Most interesting information, George! John must be wrong about me (as I thought). I am not to the right of Attila the Hun! Here was my score: Economic Left/Right: 3.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.79 Wish I could reproduce the chart. My point was on a line three to the right of the vertical center line and two lines above the horizontal center line. Clearly I am moderately to the right of center, and tending more toward an authortarian perspective than a libertarian. I would encourage everyone to take the interesting test and if they want post their results. Edited February 3, 2006 by Tim Gratz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Adams Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Your political compassEconomic Left/Right: -8.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54 The nearest person to me on the chart was the Dalia Lama. Ghandi was right besideof me. Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Here was my score:Economic Left/Right: 3.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.79 Who were you close to in the chart? George Bush? Going by those scores you could be classed as a neo-fascist. The chart is flawed. Saddam Hussein appears as a left-wing authoritarian. In fact, like Hitler, he imprisoned or executed all left-wing leaders when he gained power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 John, how do you know that is how Hussein appears? Perhaps it is not the philosophy of the chart but your own that is flawed. I could accept that about Hussein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 John, how do you know that is how Hussein appears?Perhaps it is not the philosophy of the chart but your own that is flawed. I could accept that about Hussein. Scroll down the page. It shows you a chart with different political leaders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gratz Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 (edited) Sorry, I missed that. Sounds interesting. Back I go. I did. You know who I seem to be just about on top of? John's friend, Tony Blair. Intereresting! Edited February 3, 2006 by Tim Gratz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Carroll Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Is Tim Gratz as far right as John sees him and is John really as liberal and left as he thinks? Where do you belong to? Are you a neighbour of Nelson Mandela or do you prefer to eat pasta with Silvio Berlusconi ? Are you tough enough to bear the truth? If you want to know the answers click below Economic Left/Right: -4.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74 T.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Economic Left/Right: -7.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92 I appear to be somewhere around Nelson Mandela. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Agbat Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Is Tim Gratz as far right as John sees him and is John really as liberal and left as he thinks? Where do you belong to? Are you a neighbour of Nelson Mandela or do you prefer to eat pasta with Silvio Berlusconi ? Are you tough enough to bear the truth? If you want to know the answers click below http://www.politicalcompass.org/ I found myself next to the guy who took off his clothes and wrapped himself in a blanket. George I always enjoy political quizzes like this one, and the inevitable arguments resulting from the interpretation thereof... It is evident on this thread. I, like John D., would have preferred the availability of neutral answers, as many of the questions were worded as absolutes. The logician in me cannot get past questions like this, as the word "ALWAYS" and other absolutes trigger a nearly immediate degree of disagreement. My score came out: Economic Left/Right: 2.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.82 ...putting me squarely in that unoccupied lower-right quadrant! But I expected this. As I elucidated in another post, my views are largely in line (although tempered, as the scores show) with the American Libertarian Party (www.lp.org). Another comment: If one considers the actual distances between various peoples' positions on things, some of origins of the rather heated political exchanges that occur on this forum are visible. To someone who is scoring (for example) -8 for both, someone who scores +2 for both will seem VERY far to the right (there is a delta of 10 for both scores... that is large). On the other hand, the person who score +2 in both will not seem that far to the right to a chap who scored -2 in both... Perspective, as they say.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 So far, everybody except Tim Gratz has scored a - score for Social Libertarian/Authoritarian. Does this mean that all JFK assassination researchers are social libertarians? Does it also mean that Tim Gratz is not a real JFK researcher and is working undercover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Agbat Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Ironically, the British "Liberal Democrat" party (at least according to the site's analysis) falls in the same quadrant as do I. In the 'States, the phrase "Liberal Democrat" has an entirely different political orientation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen Turner Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 When I try to click on that site all I get is a blank screen, I think its trying to tell me something. My guess is Socialist, Atheist, Humanitarian..Thats how right on I am LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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