On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (1).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (18).
Yeah, right. I’m a liberal, but I’m not THAT liberal. I doubt this test is all that validly constructed. A lot of the choices didn’t bracket my position all that well.
Agreed Lib, this test does not appear to accomodate extremes such as fascism, Social Darwinism, anarchism, Marxism or whatever Libertarian/neo-liberalism tag you would identify yourself with.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (6).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Centrist (45).
A little further left than I expected, but yeah, that’s about it.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (5).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (23).
Nothing really surprising there.
Oh, well excuse me for not being one of the weebles. But as it happens, wording these tests to accomodate libertarians, authoritarians, liberals, conservatives, and centrists is easy. It is only a matter of first understanding politics as philosophy. When the choices are (1) spend a lot of money, (2) spend only a little money, (3) spend money on this, or (4) spend money on that — there is no choice to save money.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (15).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (33).
Dang. I wanted to be the most leftist of the bunch.
Lib - I agree with you here. There should be options advocating “spend no money”, “spend all money”, “allow no coercion”, “allow all coercion” and the like.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (22).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (32).
Not being an American or living there, I had to put myself in a frame of mind as being either of those.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (18)
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Conservative (87)
What can I say. I’m a bloody schizophrenic. Maximum personal freedom with minimum government. Open borders, gay marriages, free abortions, cut spendings.
Yup. It seems about right.
Non-fiscal issues: Moderate conservative (65)
Fiscal issues: Moderate liberal (32)
I guess Ralph Cartman on * South Park * summed it all up for me when he said, “I don’t like conservatives, but I really (bleeping) hate liberals.”
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (12).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (18).
I would have thought me more moderate liberal on fiscal issues.
I wonder what I would have scored 8 years ago when I was a hippy.
That appears to be me (well, so far anyway). I’m just a bit surprised… but then Olentzero hasn’t turned up in this thread yet 
NF 27, F 34, Mod Lib in both
I dunno but I think it places me a little further left than does the Compass. Like the Compass, it has a bias – rightward, and focused on issues in controversy in US Politics.
As a critique, I noticed at least one “question” where instead of 4 options, you really had 2 options, each rephrased in 2 different ways. And one (the Q on Radio/TV regulation) where the “answers” included answers to two different issues – content material regulation, and corporate ownership.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (12).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Centrist (50).
I like this better than the Compass, too. That combined both of these things above and came up with an answer of being far a slightly leftist moderate. But this is more accurate.
Strong Liberal, though, huh? Not sure I would have called myself that, but if the shoe fits.
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Conservative (67).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Conservative (90).
On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Conservative (86).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Conservative (87).
Not surprising.
The only problem I have with tests like these (including the Political Compass) is that they tend to ask only about your approval of various forms of government action. So, for example, if like me you are deeply, deeply troubled by the amount of sex and violence on TV and in movies, think it is a HUGE societal problem, and strongly feel that we are going to hell in a handbasket unless something can be done about it, but you feel some qualms about letting the federal government totally control the airwaves, or you oppose same-sex marriage but are hesitant about writing that into the Constitution, there’s really no way to express that on the test. So you give an answer that indicates your hesitance about government action, and you come across as a moderate which doesn’t reflect your real feelings on the issue.
Anyone else feel they have this problem (from either end of the spectrum)?
I can’t for the life of me see how I get labelled a Moderate Conservative (67) on non-fiscal issues.
Here are my choices to a few questions that I would call “non-fiscal issues”:
“Individual States should have the choice of whether to recognize gay & lesbian couples.”
“Abortions are a woman’s right and should be legal with few or no restrictions.”
“The government should legalize most drugs and allow individuals to make their own choices.”
I thought I’d be on the left side of the spectrum for non-fiscal issues. I guess not wanting to ban all guns makes me a big time conservative. :rolleyes:
non-Fiscal: Strong Liberal, 16
Fiscal: Moderate Conservative, 68
Precisely what I would have expected. I had to bend my mind around a lot of the questions because I’m not American, but I think the result is reasonable.
Non-fiscal - 12 (Strong Liberal)
Fiscal - 64 (Mod Conservative)
About right. My philosophy is “do whatever you want, but don’t expect me to pay for it.”
Sua
In most of the questions there were.
I’m wondering how many people did not select the “priority” button (low, med, high) on some or all of the quetions. I had to go back several times to select it.
I expected to be more “liberal” on the non-fiscal issues. My Political Compass score came out much closer to the way I see myself, even though I thought that test was much more ambiguous as to which answer I wanted to pick.