Posted on 12/07/2001 1:17:53 AM PST by The Raven
Hitler was not a right winger. Did you know that?
Take the test and see where you come out....
Economic Left/Right: 4.38
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.15
They mis-characterize Milton as well. Friedman gave numerous examples of how government is the worst choice for whatever your trying to do. The evils of big government are not visible as for many programs it's all we've got. No competition.
The authors fall into this trap. Assuming government provides the only solution for prgressive, social good. [they don't come right out and say it - but it's there].
Some things were not absolute, which made them hard to answer! I was far too libetarian for my own comfort! :)
Authoritarian/Libertarian - 1.60
Whatever that is....
I don't like the questions. Some are too ambiguous and non-discriminating.
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PoliticalCompass.com...
...is a complete and utter load of bollocks. It claims to have a method of portraying a person's political position outside the narrow confines of 'left' and 'right'. Nice idea. It asks a series of questions to which you reply that you "strongly disagree", "disagree", "agree" or "strongly agree".
However just take the first question:
If globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations?
Sorry but my answer is both as that is a totally false dichotomy.
Or how about:
Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment.
Again, a false dichotomy, so my answer is neither as unimpeded markets do both within the business cycle. The question also presupposes that either can be meaningfully 'controlled'.
PoliticalCompass.com is just another group of flat-earth socialists using sloppy methodology to say nothing worthwhile about anything in particular. The questions are just a series of propositions based on a resolutely statist meta-contextual view of political dynamics. PoliticalCompass.com is not just irrelevant to libertarians, it is just plain irrelevant. I have no idea why worthy blogs like Andrew Sullivan and Daimnation give them the time of day. I guess they were slumming.
Tony Benn, who is an apologist for collectivist mass murderer Mao Tsetung, is more 'libertarian' that Michael Portillo? These buffons do not know what 'libertarian' means. Also anarcho-syndicalism is not a form of libertarianism, it is a form of incoherent violence based communism. PoliticalCompass.com is a complete waste of pixels.
I like how they made Thatcher out to be practically a Nazi on their plot... Thatcher is nowhere near Nazism. But hey, what do facts matter...
Authoritarian/Libertarian -3.69
Do I win a prize? LOL
Yes. One extra vote in the next election
econ 7.26
autho/liber 5.56
sheesh...I'm such an anachist!!!
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