Is there an internet questionaire to determine one's politcal persuasion?

In My Humble Opinion
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My turn.

I read as Economic Left/Right: -2.00 and Authoritarian/Libertarian: -1.79. About the same as “Robin Cook” whoever the devil HE is.

For the test itself…

Ranchoth
(“Make love, not war”? Who says we can’t do BOTH?)

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Lobsang, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is generally used to wrap up the idea that punishment should very exactly match the crime comitted - if you poke someone’s eye out, your eye should be put out. Extrapolate from there to an apropriate justice system.

“Capital punishment as a judicial option” means that putting a criminal to death should be an possible punishiment in the court system.

To “think globally, act locally” is to determine overall (global) goals, but then implement policies/practices that feed into that goal on a local level. So if you hold that cleaner water should be a worldwide goal, you seek to stop people from dumping pharmasutical products in the creek that runs through your back yard. The implications are (at least) twofold - you need to do something in addition to holding a belief, and lots of people acting on local levels move toward the overall goal.

On the luckiness question - it might not be a directly political one, but your answer illuminates whether or not you feel a person is responsible for their own situation/actions. Your opinon on that probably does affect your political views, but it can swing both ways (some people are inherently unlucky, so we should, as a society, give them all the help we can vs. some people are inherently unlucky, so no amount of help we give them is going to help them change their situation; why bother?).

And…Political Compass results:
Economic Left/Right: 3.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -6.00

On the World’s Shortest Political Quiz, I come out all the way in the Libertarian corner.

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Lobsang: Protectionism is the belief that a government should provide economic protection for its country’s businesses and workers through tools such as subsidies and tariffs. E.g., Bush’s decision earlier this year to increase taxes on imported steel was a protectionist action, since it was an economic regulation implemented for the benefit of the American steel industry (and, IMHO, to the detriment of American steel consumers).

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Appreciative thanks go out to the people (Fang and Erika) who answered my annotations.

That is why I did them.

Thanks.