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Politics: Where do you stand?

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:20 am
by Guilty_Biscuit
Where do you stand? Left/Right, Authoritarian/Libertarian? Are your views closest to Ghandi, Stalin, Bush or someone else? Take this TEST and post your results here in bold.

My results were:

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15


I'll compile the results for the average CCer in this top thread.

The 'average' CCer:

Economic Left/Right: -2.32
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.73


CC Comunity so far:

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(I'll make this look better if there is a lot of interest)

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:35 am
by alex_white101
Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.46

that puts me almost exactly on the x axis, hence i am not authoritarian and slightly to the left of the y axis. this puts me toward the left wing. i wasnt very surprised at this, as i beleive free markets are the way to go, however they are shockingly abused by westerners at the moment. put simply the western/rich world are completely exploiting poor countries in every way possible. even aid, which is ''given freely'' seems to be disgustingly tied to poor countries opening up there markets so these well established firms from rich people can come and make profits. anyways thanks for the link guilty! was very interesting!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:42 am
by chewyman
Economic Left/Right: 4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.08

Basically, people should have the right to do whatever they want provided it doesn't infringe on others rights + free market capitalism.

Sounds about right to me. Great website btw 8)

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:50 am
by Guidocks
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.74

pretty much just down a bit and to the left.
near gandhi in fact

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:55 am
by spinwizard
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.97

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:56 am
by alex_white101
im practically on the origin of the graph =s however these obviosly give over simplified results, as i am very left wing about some things and right wing about others, clearly they cancel each other out, but i would give more weight to some policies than others, so realistically i think i would be considderably to the right of the origin most probably still on the x axis.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:57 am
by Anarchist
Some Very good Questions!!!!

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.97

Im next to HH the Dalai Lama(i believe)

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:01 am
by alex_white101
thats why we disagree so much on the songle world government thing anarchist! your a communist in disguise :lol:

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:02 am
by chewyman
filthy commies :wink:

Hmm, I wonder if I'll be the only neo-liberal on these forums...

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:04 am
by nagerous
I got the same as you anarchist

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:07 am
by Skittles!
Economic Left/Right: -3.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00


I'm near Ghandi.. Well. A bit to the right and down of Ghandi, but close.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:16 am
by alex_white101
wow, where are all the facists today???? and whats with all the leaning towards communism! :lol:

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:16 am
by Skittles!
alex_white101 wrote:wow, where are all the facists today???? and whats with all the leaning towards communism! :lol:


As I said before
There's nothing wrong with communism, it's the leaders of the country with Communism that's wrong.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:18 am
by alex_white101
i personally think communism can never be expected to work, nor can capitilism...... we just have to find a happy medium, i dont think we have achieved it yet. but the world seems to be turning towards protecionism now so i dont think it will be long before we swing towards communism again, just a watered down version

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:25 am
by Anarchist
I see protectionism happening(your not allowed to do anything for your protection)

and its the wrong way to go!
more bad memories tied to communism....


wonder where the jesus freaks will score......

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:40 am
by chewyman
Protectionism is complete and utter stupidity any way you look at it. I don't understand how the lefties can support it and at the same time criticise wealthy states for not giving enough aid to the third world.


EDIT: lol at my single yellow dot on the entire right hand side of the graph :lol:

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:45 am
by Anarchist
chewyman wrote:Economic Left/Right: 4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.08

Basically, people should have the right to do whatever they want provided it doesn't infringe on others rights + free market capitalism.

Sounds about right to me. Great website btw 8)


whats funny is that were so far apart yet this is pretty much my view on things, not sure on how well free market would pan out.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:54 am
by alex_white101
protectionism is most definately NOT stupid, it is in some cases, such as the USA protecting its cotton producers and the EU protecting its famers. but poor countries NEED protectionist measures in order to help there infant industries otherwise they will never be allowed to develop enough to be able to compete with rich country firms. however they cant do this due to the ''aid'' they recieve with all the tied conditions which force them to open up sections of there market which should be able to develop for at least 5/6 years.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:59 am
by chewyman
Protectionism means inefficiency and it's as simple as that. As soon as you say that some countries can have protectionist policies then everybody will want them and that's the situation we're in now.

whats funny is that were so far apart yet this is pretty much my view on things, not sure on how well free market would pan out.

It's probably because of the wording of some questions. For example, one question said something about globalism and should it favour multinationals or individuals. Now that's not the sort of question you can answer with just an 'agree' or 'disagree'.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:01 am
by alex_white101
what you say IS the case in rich countries i agree, but certainly not in developing countries, these ''sunset'' industries NEED protecting in order to gain the economies of scale to give them the slightest chance of competing with well established companies from rich countries

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:42 am
by Guilty_Biscuit
Anarchist wrote:wonder where the jesus freaks will score......


I wonder where the mods will score...

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:42 am
by Guiscard
Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

Wow, more extreme than I thought! Dirty commie scum!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:45 am
by alex_white101
Guiscard wrote:Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.64

Wow, more extreme than I thought! Dirty commie scum!


:shock: :shock: :shock: wow! never put this guy in power! :lol: :lol:

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:50 am
by Guilty_Biscuit
alex_white101 wrote:thats why we disagree so much on the songle world government thing anarchist! your a communist in disguise :lol:


chewyman wrote:filthy commies


Guiscard wrote:Wow, more extreme than I thought! Dirty commie scum!


Communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) on the graph would be top left, all those in the bottom left are leaning towards anarchism (ie liberal socialism), so there you are Guiscard a liberal socialist.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:58 am
by alex_white101
sorry im lost? so does that mean they are liberal communists?