The Political Compass
Are you fed up of being asked what’s your politics and you have no clue?
Are you non-US and trying to figure out how you would fit in with all the political crazies in the USA?
Well, I don’t know if this will help but it was a quiz and I got to select radio buttons and so why not?
My political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64
Advisory: I don’t completely understand economics…
you should put up who is out there in the field with you, like Nader or something
Comment by Chennette — Tuesday 7th, October 2008 @ 12:38 am
gosh
they can click the links
who’s with you??
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 7th, October 2008 @ 12:38 am
Hmmm I don’t completely understand economics either. In fact, I can barely understand that chart lol. I guess you want Obama to win the election since you’re soo far to the left.(left is democrat, right??) I hope he wins too, but some political analyists think racism may play out on election day. Salaams
Comment by Spicequeen — Wednesday 8th, October 2008 @ 10:18 am
I don’t know if there is any right choice. I can’t see that their elections are any better than a caribbean elections (except for the two term limit). It’s sad when an outside party has practically chance of winning. I guess like with all things, history will tell us if the winner was an “okay” choice.
Comment by Lilandra — Wednesday 8th, October 2008 @ 10:59 am
I kind of sensed that there was a Liberal leaning Leftest lure in your blog Lil. The chart measures what your political ideology is. In the U.S., with a two party system, you can only go either to the Left or the Right.
If you really want to see something extremely weird from that perspective then you should look at Canada. Five parties: Conservatives, who are the Right-wingers; The Liberals, who are the Centre; NDP (New Democrats Party) socialist Let-Wingers; The Green Party, not sure where they sit–but will say slightly left of centre; The P.Q.Block, or the Quebec Separatists–separate from the Federalist Canada, who are Right of Centre.
As a voter–it is tough. We hit the voting booths on the 14th! We don’t have fixed voting dates and terms like the U.S.. It’s that Parliament thing that we inherited from the British.
Comment by Thomasso — Thursday 9th, October 2008 @ 11:35 pm
Oh don’t I know about that Parliament “thing” from the British.
PMs calling elections when they please.
Or having the date they’ll call “in their back pocket” for almost a year.
*sigh*
Our elections is more simplistic…mostly race. I hate it.
I tried looking at the Canadian chart…I was confused.
Is it possible for any of those major parties to win?
Comment by Lilandra — Thursday 9th, October 2008 @ 11:38 pm
Having five parties running does make for the possibility of having lots of minority governments, but surprisingly, this only happens once in a while. Canadians get very polarized and majority governments happen more often.
I laugh at the Americans who try to understand our politics, when most of them can’t even explain their own. The concept of having five parties is just too much for them. I think it’s great because the other parties can gang up on the governing one and out-vote bad Bills. Of course this only works if the leading party is a minority one.
One last point on Canadian politics–each party has been known to shift from one side or the other–they do not always keep the same political positions on the left-right scale. They can change from election to election.
Comment by Thomasso — Friday 10th, October 2008 @ 9:53 pm
i think that sounds a good way to be…the ever-changing
i mean, do the heads of parties change a lot? do you have fixed terms?
Comment by Lilandra — Friday 10th, October 2008 @ 10:14 pm
Yes, every so often every party goes through a transition, mainly in terms of policies. The Two main parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives have being very divers in their mandates over the last couple of years. The Conservatives, for example, have taken on a “Everything in OK” with the economy, while the Liberals are pushing for a huge environmental platform: the “Green Shift.” Five years ago no one would have predicted that from either of these two parties?
No, we do not have fixed terms, but generality an election should be called within a four year period, not exceeding a fifth year. The only government in Canada that I’m a where of that has a fixed term in the Provence that I live in, British Columbia, one the West Coast of Canada–it is fixed right to the day. Next May is our provincial election–but the government can opt out if there are certain circumstances….
Comment by Thomasso — Saturday 11th, October 2008 @ 12:43 am
i think i myself don’t fully understand all the political terms and use them interchangeably
i think i meant limited terms?
i’ve been told that although US presidents can only serve for two terms other members of congress can keep serving ad infinitum
is this how it is in Canada?
I wish our PM could have a limited number of terms.
Comment by Lilandra — Saturday 11th, October 2008 @ 12:45 am
In Canada a leader can serve as long as he or she could. We had one that lasted almost 12 years, but he was very popular though? …and they can last a little as a six weeks. Funny thing, most Canadians don’t seem to mind that leaders have this staying power, but the 4 year election rule always applies, so that always kills any long term hopefuls.
Comment by Thomasso — Saturday 11th, October 2008 @ 10:25 pm
this no term limit must be inherited from the commonwealth
our problem is the party leader can be the party leader as long as the idiots in the party keep him there and treat him like a “messiah” and then for a while (in my older life), the two leaders keep vying for PM and never change so what’s the point?
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 12th, October 2008 @ 12:19 am