Thread: The political compass

sweet, I'm George W. Bush!

this is the silliest political test I've ever seen. It may just as well have read "if you are a good, normal person, you're libertarian. If you're an evil, hateful, bigot, you're in the blue square right next to GWB."



PS everytime a question led one way, I chose the opposite. That's how the above results were obtained

I think its funny that George Bush is very near Hitler. Because that doesn't seem biased at all. I think the rankings have an inherent bias too.

Originally Posted by khaos

I think its funny that George Bush is very near Hitler. Because that doesn't seem biased at all. I think the rankings have an inherent bias too.

Anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that neither GW Bush, Ghandi, Stalin, nor Hitler ever actually took this test???

Originally Posted by Seraphim

Anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that neither GW Bush, Ghandi, Stalin, nor Hitler ever actually took this test???

Or the fact that Angela Merkle is off to the right- in Germany she may be conservative but Germany's conservative is our liberal. Conservative/Right and Liberal/Left change with the times lol. And there's obviously a point weighting to the questions... how do you determine whether hating gays makes you more or less "right/authoritarian" than hating foreigners? According to this GWB=Hitler on an economic scale, but was much further right on a social scale. Hitler moderate on a social scale? REALLY?

Originally Posted by khaos

I think its funny that George Bush is very near Hitler. Because that doesn't seem biased at all. I think the rankings have an inherent bias too.

Don't you get it? they're both evil. Bad people go to the upper right and good people go down and/or to the left

I guess you and I are evil. What with me close to Hitler and you close to Bush- we could fourth Reich the gay Mexican immigrants!

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

sthis is the silliest political test I've ever seen. It may just as well have read "if you are a good, normal person, you're libertarian. If you're an evil, hateful, bigot, you're in the blue square right next to GWB."

It's not really a test and I don't think that is what they're saying at all, in fact, most of the big political leaders in the west are more or less where you are.

Hitler isn't any where near GWB.

Also, the whole forcing an answer thing, I get where you're coming from, but I suspect it all evens it's self out with the 'agree disagree or strongly agree/disagree'

Originally Posted by Stubear

I'm basically dead centre! Hehe!

I will take that to mean that I just have a common sense approach to things, and do whatever seems to be right given the situation, which I kinda how I think about things anyway..!

Thanks for the link, its a very interesting site!

Hey Stubear, Great minds think alike.

I don't know what they base their questions on. I'm very Conservative. Not Neo-Conservative. Which would probably put me somewhere closer to the Libertarian camp. I think I should probably be more to the right but this might be O.K.

The new conservatives seem to be more Authoritarian. The old Conservatives like Reagan were for personal and economic freedom. Unlike the Neo-Cons. That's probably why I'm placed so far left here.

Pretty much where I'd expect to be. Some of the questions were ridiculous though.

Do you kill babies? 1- Never, 2- rarely, 3- sometimes, 4- a lot.
Do you hate America? 1- double no, 2- no, 3- yes, 4-double yes.
Do you wish to rule the free world? 1- double no, 2- no, 3- yes, 4-double yes.
How tall are you? 1- >6 foot, 2- 5'6"-6', 3- 5'-5'6"', 4- <5 foot

If you scored 4-6 you are probably a normal person
If you scored 7-9 you are probably a normal person residing in a US occupied country
If you scored 10-12 you are either a Nazi, terrorist or dirty hippy, depending on whether you voted McCain, abstained, or Obama.
If you scored 13-16 you are probably Hitler or Napoleon's long lost great great grandson

***DISCLAIMER. The results and method of this test have not been scientifically tested. Author assumes no responsibility for its consequences.