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I do tend to lean towards the left.

If anyone is confussed, here is a test they can take.


http://www.politicalcompass.org/


Here are my results
Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92
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My results are that I am Economic left/right: -3.50
and Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.13

I am a left libertarian. I am halfway across the left side of the graph. Now I know. Thanks for the link, Catwoman.

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I do tend to lean towards the left.

If anyone is confussed, here is a test they can take.


http://www.politicalcompass.org/


Here are my results
Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.92



Cat
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well, this quiz is a joke...I just took it....I cant beleive some of these questions (and the fact that the answers are only disagree, agree, and the extremes).....the political ideology system is much more complex than that......I also cant beleive that they are considering some of thewse questions political (WHich a bunch I dont think are at all), and that some of the questions are very much so one sided the way they are phrased....I mean, i dont think that I follow the Republican ideology to a tee, but I sure cant say that I can "agree strongly" on a question that says "Should this be the highest priority"...I might think its a priority, but not the highest.....I think that this is not an accuret way to do this at all......
plus, there are a few ambiguously worded questions......

does anyone have a better test?



anyway, heres what I got:



Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.72


that means that Im more towards the center than I would have said...I might be on certain issues, but definitly not on overall....I feel that this quiz is not an accuret representation at all

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Economic Left/Right: 1.88
Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.72

that means that Im more towards the center than I would have said...I might be on certain issues, but definitly not on overall....I feel that this quiz is not an accuret representation at all
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Hehehe, you're more "liberal" than I am ;D

Absolutely it is not an accurate representation.  Like most web-based tests it's just a "general idea" of where you stand.  There are way too many complex issues and way too many individual preferences to accurately quantify a person's "left/rightness".

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but is it not Winston Churchill who said, "He who is under 30 and republican is heartless, and he who is over 30 and democrat is brainless."
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I think you'll find it's:

"If a man is not a socialist by the time he is twenty, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain."

...though IIRC it was Ringo Starr who said "My head tells me to vote Liberal, my heart tells me to vote Labour but my wallet tells me to vote Conservative"

My cynicism came largely with the self-serving student politics while at university: no real beliefs, just the will to say pretty much anything to get into power.  And these are the sort of people running things ATM :-(

BUT (and this is a big "but") - IMO if you do nothing about it; if you fail to vote; if you don't get involved in the political process... if all you do is abstain and be apathetic: THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN.

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Mike Bloomberg is the Mayor of NYC and we are all suffering.
I'm never voting again-what's the point?
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Mike Bloomberg was a democrat you know.....

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BUT (and this is a big "but") - IMO if you do nothing about it; if you fail to vote; if you don't get involved in the political process... if all you do is abstain and be apathetic: THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN.
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And complain I don't . . . For me, all political parties are as bad as each other with their own seperate agendas (I'm talking about British politics but I'm sure it works the same in all parts of the world). There is no point in complaining about the inevitable.

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I think you'll find it's:

"If a man is not a socialist by the time he is twenty, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain."
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I stand corrected, but i got the jist of the quote down...

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I'm a registered Democrat. I've only exercised my right to vote-once.
Al Gore got cheated
Mike Bloomberg is the Mayor of NYC and we are all suffering.
I'm never voting again-what's the point?
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Yes, Bloomberg was a democrat before he was a republican...but I still havent doubted him where others have, unlike most politicians, he wasn't trying to get re-elected, he was trying to save us from the budget crisis, which he did, or at least made the problem less severe...what kind of person disagrees with the current status, and disagrees with whats needed to make it better?

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Yes, Bloomberg was a democrat before he was a republican...but I still havent doubted him where others have, unlike most politicians, he wasn't trying to get re-elected, he was trying to save us from the budget crisis, which he did, or at least made the problem less severe...what kind of person disagrees with the current status, and disagrees with whats needed to make it better?
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I actully hate Bloomberg as well, but not for what he did fiscally, but all the other stuff he is doing.....

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BUT (and this is a big "but") - IMO if you do nothing about it; if you fail to vote; if you don't get involved in the political process... if all you do is abstain and be apathetic: THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN.
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Which I would wholeheartedly agree with, Phil...but when all major political parties appear to stand for one thing, i.e., 'Screw Joe Public, let's see what we can cream for ourselves out of this racket'...that's when I start to ask, why get involved at all...

As I've mentioned before...I'm just a bleedin' taxpayer...

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Which I would wholeheartedly agree with, Phil...but when all major political parties appear to stand for one thing, i.e., 'Screw Joe Public, let's see what we can cream for ourselves out of this racket'...
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Not that I'm disagreeing with you Paul, but WTF do we (and by "we", I mean all the Western nations) think that our "democracy" makes us morally superior to less, er, enlightened places?