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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 04:48 PM
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Poll question: So where did you find yourself on the Political Compass?
Edited on Mon May-05-08 05:00 PM by Lorien
You can take the test here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3245235&mesg_id=3245235
or here: http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index



*Note that this test was created in the U.K. and uses the terminology in the broader (worldwide) sense, which can sometimes conflict with the rather narrow American definitions of the same words.
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jellen Donating Member (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 04:49 PM
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1. I'm Not Any Of Those (nt)
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 04:59 PM
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4. If you haven't taken the test, you'll never know.
You will fit into one of the categories, but just where in that category....?
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jellen Donating Member (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:03 PM
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5. I'm New Here, So I'm Just Checking Things Out
I'm learning yet.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:51 PM
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30. Well, welcome to DU!
:hi:
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Duke Newcombe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 04:51 PM
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2. Almost top dead Center
-0.2, 0.0

This makes me hated by all :)

Duke
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DadOf2LittleAngels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:25 PM
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15. Thats almost where I ended up
-0.2 , -0.2
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:33 PM
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23. You would be more left wing than Obama or Clinton on economic policy. That's a good thing.
Keep in mind the political discourse in the US is fairly narrow in scope, usually between center-rightists and far-rightists as far as economic policy goes. On social issues, apparently you're more libertarian than anybody in the presidential contest.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:46 PM
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28. No, center top would be a complete fascist
slightly more so than Hitler.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 06:04 PM
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33. Wait, I thought he meant he was almost smack dab in the center of the graph.
A person with a 0,0 rating would be right on the middle of the graph, right? A pure authoritarian rightist would be somebody with a +10, +10 rating.
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Duke Newcombe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 06:11 PM
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34. That's what I meant...
Old automotive reference. If you're adjusting a piston, you want it TDC-top dead center between the walls of the cylinder.

I am as close as you can get to being in the CENTER of that graph without being there--which gets crap flung at me from all sides. Too "lib-rul" for the right, too "fascist-y" for the left.

Duke
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 06:18 PM
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35. Ah, smack dab in the center
you could also say that everyone could find something to like about you. :shrug:
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:42 PM
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26. Howdy there Hitler!
We don't see many Fascists in these here parts.

;-)
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Duke Newcombe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:46 PM
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29. Don't make me invoke Godwin's Law on you!
:)

Duke
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 04:53 PM
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3. Falling off the southwest edge
but y'all already knew that, right?
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kdmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:11 PM
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8. LOL me too! n/t
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:12 PM
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9. Me too!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:05 PM
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6. Hillary and Obama are in the same quadrant as Thatcher and Hitler.
So obviously they're exactly the same.

Exactly the same.

Exactly the same.

Bush and Gore are exactly the same.

Bush and Gore are exactly the same.
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BigBluenoser Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:11 PM
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7. Looks like I'm a Give em' Hell Gravel kind of guy...
Edited on Mon May-05-08 05:13 PM by BigBluenoser
I won't be popular here. :hide: Not so far to the right as he, and more libertarian, but closer than i woulda thunk.

Hey, it's like they say... Libertarians and Anarchists will get along fine until the revolution, but then the Anarchist takes the Libertarian's lawn mower without asking. And it all falls apart :(
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:16 PM
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12. They are all in different areas of that quadrant
Edited on Mon May-05-08 05:18 PM by Lorien
but yes, as a whole, American politicians are far to the Right of those in, say, the EU. A Tory from London once said to me "Tories LOVE Kerry. He's our kind of conservative. But your conservatives are just scary".
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:39 AM
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70. This shows what is wrong with us. No choices, just minor variations
on the ruling class dictates. Sad way to start the day.
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madmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 12:06 PM
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72. Newt won
That's all he wanted to do - a strong shift to the Right. A Right owned media played its part.

I'm there with Dennis Kucinich.

I wonder where Ron Paul would be.
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:13 PM
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10. According to this, I really am a Communist Anarchist!
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BigBluenoser Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:14 PM
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11. Stay off my yard!
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 11:02 AM
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71. You're an atheist!
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:27 PM
Response to Reply #10
17. Me too
I always figured I was somewhere between a socialist and a anarchist.
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:19 PM
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13. Here you go
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.90


Which puts me right about where Ghandi is on that dot up there.

It's such a shame that our national dialogue is so far right.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:21 PM
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14. Here you go
and have noticed that I have been radicalized over the years

Economic Left/Right: -8.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.21
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CherokeeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:25 PM
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16. Get Your Far Lefty Here!!!
Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.9

In good company with Gandi and Kucinich!
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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:28 PM
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18. -4.75 economic, -2.41 social
right about where Gandhi is on the chart
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Unvanguard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:29 PM
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19. Not just bottom left quadrant, but bottom left corner.
Economic Left/Right: -9.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:40 PM
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25. I came out as a Libertarian Socialist, not too far from you. Here is my graph.
Edited on Mon May-05-08 05:41 PM by Selatius


Apparently, I'm not too happy with the current state of capitalism.
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timtom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 06:47 PM
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38. I took this a month or so ago
and I am just about in your close neighborhood, Selatius.

And there's damn few of us left. Left. Get it? Hee! Hee!
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:30 PM
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20. Here's me
Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.44
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:31 PM
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21. I'm hanging off the bottom left quadrant by my fingernails!
:P

I'm more left than Gandhi and Kucinich! ;)
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:33 PM
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22. I am to the left and down from Gandhi.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:08 PM
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43. It seems that the majority of DU is there with us
too bad our candidates are on the other end of the spectrum!
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:51 PM
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44. Kucinich, but he's just too open and real for the country.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:05 PM
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46. Sadly, no longer a candidate. I think that if the media had given him the
same air time as their top picks and not "spun" his campaign, then maybe he would have been our candidate. He certainly polled ahead of everyone else after the debates!
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:27 PM
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47. He did a good job of airing issues. He told some inconvenient truths.
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 08:47 AM
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67. The graph of the candidates is based on their public positions
I wonder where Clinton and Obama would fall if they were able to answer the questions honestly and anonymously, instead of in the public forum, where all candidates never really answer questions honestly, instead they pander and flipflop for votes.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:38 PM
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24. I keep getting farther left as the years pass...
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:42 PM
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27. That's probably the product of your witnessing what is happening to the US.
It's making you grow more dissatisfied with the current order of things, so you move leftward in reaction. If you scroll up for my graph, you can plainly see I'm pretty far left, and I wasn't always that far left, but the last 8 years really pushed me out there.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:51 PM
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31. Nature, and JuniperX, always seek a balance
I do believe you are correct.
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 05:54 PM
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32. I'm in the bottom left corner...as Liberal as possible.
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 06:21 PM
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36. I am almost dead center of the left.
-5.50
-6.21
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 06:35 PM
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37. Economic Left/Right: -10.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.49
Anybody got a score to beat that? :D
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Two Americas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 07:00 PM
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39. lol
Nice to see someone is close to me...

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -10.00
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 07:01 PM
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40. Now I know why I agree with 99% of your posts!
:toast:

:D
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Two Americas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 07:05 PM
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41. yep
:pals:
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Unvanguard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:56 PM
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45. Oh my Makhno.
Edited on Mon May-05-08 09:56 PM by Unvanguard
You beat me.
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:50 PM
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51. I've come close on many occasions. But you've got me.
Never hit a -10. I have hit -9's regularly however.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 05:45 AM
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58. We're close: Economic Left/Right: -7.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.90
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3245235&mesg_id=3245934
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SmellsLikeDeanSpirit Donating Member (471 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 07:07 PM
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42. I'm basically a commie/anarchists
Good times.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:44 PM
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48. A little further left than Gandhi,
about as far south as the Dalai Lama.

A good illustration of why I wanted to vote for Dennis Kucinich, and why I don't care for either Clinton or Obama.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 07:05 AM
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60. Well, so far on the issues
only 2% of DUers responding have any real reasons for being fans of Obama and HRC. I also wanted to vote for Kucinich (or Gore), later settled for Edwards, but now? I'll just vote for whoever they decide I will vote for, exactly as the powers that be have planned. :-(
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 07:29 AM
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61. What I can't stomach is this:
Why do so many Democrats vote against their own positions WHEN THEY HAVE THE CHANCE?

It's one thing to be stuck with the lesser of two evils in November.

It's another to be presented with an array of real progressive choices, reject them, and actively put that lesser of two evils on the ballot in November.

Many Democratic voters don't seem to walk their talk.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 08:09 AM
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63. I think that the media and those that control it
really do pick our candidates for us. By not giving them equal time and by spinning the entire race ("Kucinich is a nutty fringe candidate who won't eat meat and has a hot wife"! while Obama is "Poised, inspirational and destined for greatness"!) they set up a sense of inevitability about the whole thing. I had one friend it California tell me that she preferred Edwards but voted for Obama just to stop Hillary "Because Edwards doesn't have a chance anyway". She watches a lot of TV, so it was no surprise that she felt this way. True election reform might change this, but at this point I can't ever see that happening.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 08:16 AM
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64. I think you're right.
We've seen it happen to DK, and we understand that tptb have a big interest in keeping people like him on the fringe.

Edwards, though, is a lot more mainstream. They had a lot more trouble squelching support for him, yet it still happened.

When DK dropped out, I naturally gravitated to Edwards. I thought he'd done a great job with his campaign so far, and I liked the "new," more progressive Edwards better than when he ran in '04. I didn't get to support him for very long, though, before he was gone, too. :(
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cmb3366 Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:46 PM
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49. my compass


Pretty moderate with a libertarian twist.
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:49 PM
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50. Left Libertarian, like almost everyone else here...


Sid
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newmajority Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 10:52 PM
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52. I make Ghandi look like a freakin' neocon!
http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-9.75&soc=-6.77
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 11:05 PM
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53. I'm to the left of Gandhi...
Wowza.
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 11:27 PM
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54. -8.21, -8.5
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JustinL Donating Member (439 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:24 AM
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55. 0.12 Economic, -8.62 Social
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:44 AM
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56. I am
Edited on Tue May-06-08 04:48 AM by ccharles000
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 04:59 AM
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57. I've done this a few times, and always get about -0.7 on each axis.
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Snarkturian Clone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 06:22 AM
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59. Not even close to any of those.
Economic: -5.25 Social: -0.36
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Brewman_Jax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 07:32 AM
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62. Hanging out lower left of the graph
not far from Gandhi.

Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
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reflection Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 08:22 AM
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65. Barely in the SW corner
Economic Left/Right: -1.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.18
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Bill219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 08:37 AM
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66. Interesting test
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28
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Harry Monroe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:10 AM
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68. Economic Left/Right: -6.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.28

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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 09:20 AM
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69. this is nonsense

Putting anarchism on the same axis as libertarianism is bullshit. Anarchism is a variety of socialism. The premise of this 'compass' is out to lunch. Bet the author never read Bakunin.
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 12:19 PM
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73. I don't see Anarchism on the graph or the test...
so I don't see where you read that from the test. A couple of things, the Libertarian section of the graph(bottom half) is for CIVIL libertarian, not economic libertarian, which would be libertarian-right. Being a civil libertarian simply means you want as little interference from the government into people's personal lives as possible. Being pro-choice, pro-civil rights, etc. would make you a civil libertarian.

Besides that Anarcho-Capitalists(the most extreme of Libertarian-rightists) would dispute the notion that Anarchism itself is socialist in nature. It started that way, but it doesn't necessary have to be that way.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 01:32 PM
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74. Point taken on civil libertarians

Anarchism is right above libertarian in lighter print.

To be sure the word has been appropriated by goofballs like von Mises in a vain attempt to oppose socialism but all they do is reverse engineer their way to a superficially acceptable excuse for greed and class. Had to give Bakunin a few spins in the dirt.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:29 PM
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83. In the UK, where I believe this test originated...
there is no Libertarian party, and 'libertarian' generally refers to civil liberties. Economic libertarianism is more often called 'laissez-faire economics' here - not quite sure why we say it in French; but anyway 'libertarian' doesn't have the baggage here that it does in America.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 05:31 PM
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85. See post #44 for a definition of Libertarianism
you are quite right, of course. Many people here have a very narrow view of the term because of the rather extreme wackiness of the Libertarian party.
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nomorenomore08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 01:37 PM
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75. Economic: -8.12 Social: -7.59
I like Kucinich, but even he's middle-of-the-road compared to me.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 01:48 PM
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76. Very happy to say that I am a left libertarian.
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:45 PM
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77. SW of Gandhi
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:47 PM
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78. Libertarian Leftist, all the way.
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Truth2Tell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 02:59 PM
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79. -6, -7, guess I'm in the right place. nt
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:05 PM
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80. Libertarian slightly left of center
:hi:
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:17 PM
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81. Just south of Gandhi
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tomg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:18 PM
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82. Economic Left: -9.75 Social Libertarian: -8.41
I always thought I was pretty moderate. Actually, I wonder where most Americans would be if they took this test. A damn site further to the left and south than the politicians.
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zonmoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 03:38 PM
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84. moderated my views a bit.
Economic Left/Right: -8.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.67
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