Author Topic: Political Compass v1500  (Read 4011 times)






I think a lot of the extremism actually came from the religion and love sections, where I selected very strongly liberal choices for every single question.


hello, fellow dirty commie :)

I wonder why Eduard Bernstein isn't on the graph as one of the founders of social democracy.
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You don't force a government to be democratic, you force the people to be democratic. Their voice will change a government (either through peaceful or revolutionary means).
"Seizing" control over a government always means that one person/group seizes control, and I doubt they would really want it to be more democratic once they taste power.

You can't just "nullify" laws that benefit a specific group of people because those laws were made by a corrupt government that isn't for the people.
Overturning a government is far easier than overturning an entire population.  Just try to do it.  Say to the American people, "Let's take the government back for the good of America" and you instantly get people arguing over which the right way is.  Most can't even agree on which part of America matters more.

While people will want to hold on, if your mission is truly "for the people" from the beginning, are you saying that there is 0% chance that they will act in the people's best interests?  Take former President of Uruguay José Mujica for example.  His lifestyle reflects this.

If you seized control of the government, you could.  Take Monsanto, for example.  They're a huge and wealthy company that has unprecedented power that can control politics above and around it and a great deal of an American regional economy, to a lesser extent, the global economy.  They don't need subsidies placed on corn and soybeans, amongst other products.  Regulations set standards for crops and seeds that Monsanto has already achieved, but it makes difficult for other bioengineering companies to achieve with their limited budget and the uncompetitive prices of a larger and more influential competitor.  If you modified the regulations to still allow safe products and removed subsidies, the huge companies would not suffer, and other smaller companies would have more opportunities to find a niche.


Tried to be as authoritarian as possible, like a few people already have. I think I win (I'm not sure TableSalt's results are legitimate, since you can tweak the values in the URL).

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the not give a stuff party:



I made my sister take this and these were her results:


Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the not give a stuff party:

« Last Edit: April 23, 2016, 08:31:37 PM by True Johnny »

If you seized control of a tyrannical government and changed laws in favor of the people, it'd be best to first choose laws based on representatives of each major region, then when things are more stable you should allow the people to vote which laws they believe should or should not be in place and they're put in place by popular vote within regions



I'm not particularly surprised.


Less Friedman-ey than last time.  Interesting.

I disagree with the horseshoe thing.  But I look at it as a statism vs anarchism deal.



Not too hot, not too cold, but just right.
But not quite Goldilocks.

Very similar to Swat's results before the "not give a stuff party" ;).  I also hold the same views that he mentions, except my attitude would show to be more authoritarian if there were more options.

Was aware of this, but that's not why I said it.  More about this:


This is where I landed, but I actually rest more libertarian because a lot of questions were answered on a pragmatic basis, and others on a belief basis, but those, in my mind, should not affect the policy of state or nation.  It's more of a "just my opinion" kind of thing.  I personally believe in centrism as a truly stable system.  Unfortunately, this test does not test how much you are willing to compromise.


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