Political Compass

[WATFORD zero]

View attachment 167343I think this proves that it's a load of bollocks.

Well it certainly appears to be a mismatch between that and what Murdoch has told you that you believe

 

[Pevenseagull]

-6.13

-5.59

Slightly to the libertarian left of the middle of the libertarian left.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Your Political Compass​

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.9​

Surprised me just a little, thought I be bang on central or if anything around 1 to right and 1 to Authoritarian

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Your Political Compass​

Economic Left/Right: -8.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56​

Anarchy in the Uk. Right, I'm off to read some more Bakunin

 

[Bakero]

Your Political Compass​

Economic Left/Right: -8.0​

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56​

Anarchy in the Uk. Right, I'm off to read some more Bakunin

I've long said that NSC is a hotbed of anarchism. Seems some of our fellow posters are only just waking up to this truism.

We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort of executive officer for the week.

Post in thread 'Albanian narco gangs.' https://www.northstandchat.com/threads/albanian-narco-gangs.399974/post-10597496

 

[B-right-on]

I'm surprised. I always thought of myself as right leaning but can't agree with the questions about multi nationals.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

Right in the bottom left hand corner

 

[WATFORD zero]

Here's an interesting couple of Compasses. One of where the major UK parties were from 1970's to 2017

And one of where they were at the 2019 election

 

[Silverhatch]

Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

Right in the bottom left hand corner

Me too. Years of working in American corps might have shaped my feelings re multinationals and shareholder value.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Your Political Compass​

Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62​

 

[BadFish]

So we all sit in the green, and all the political parties sit in the red.

Something is wrong here

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

 

[razer]

Economic Left/Right: -2.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87​

 

[WATFORD zero]

So we all sit in the green, and all the political parties sit in the red.

Something is wrong here

As long as a significant proportion of the electorate keep voting on the colour of the rosette and don't look at actual policies there is

 

[Bob!]

Left, Libertarian

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Your Political Compass​

Economic Left/Right: -8.0​

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.56​

Anarchy in the Uk. Right, I'm off to read some more Bakunin

I find that reassuring, having once mistaken your Attlee for a certain Powell

 

[chickens]

So we all sit in the green, and all the political parties sit in the red.

Something is wrong here

Absolutely. There’s an attempt to keep making the “centre” further right, and actually we as individuals are not moving right, but many are massively afraid of being seen as on the left, as the media have done a bang up job of painting the left as “bleeding hearts”, “naive” and “against those of us who work for a living” - whereas the truth is exactly the reverse. There’s fear of not being seen as “sound” by the tribe.

Similarly the centre-right do not understand why they are so vilified by the left, and are repulsed by the left’s attitude to them, and that needs to stop too. I can understand why some on the left feel “Tory Scum” etc. is justified having seen what this particular incarnation of the Conservatives has done to this country, but the only people who voted for this are a tiny number of Conservative Party members, who aren’t representative of the general population, or even a lot of traditional Conservative voters. The party has been hijacked by vultures. Vilifying those who voted based on what the party used to be have surely seen enough to realise what’s happened to it.

We absolutely need to redefine where the centre ground is, further to the left of where it is now, because that’s where we all actually are. Easy to say, far tougher to do.

 

[Machiavelli]

Absolutely. There’s an attempt to keep making the “centre” further right, and actually we as individuals are not moving right, but many are massively afraid of being seen as on the left, as the media have done a bang up job of painting the left as “bleeding hearts”, “naive” and “against those of us who work for a living” - whereas the truth is exactly the reverse. There’s fear of not being seen as “sound” by the tribe.

Similarly the centre-right do not understand why they are so vilified by the left, and are repulsed by the left’s attitude to them, and that needs to stop too. I can understand why some on the left feel “Tory Scum” etc. is justified having seen what this particular incarnation of the Conservatives has done to this country, but the only people who voted for this are a tiny number of Conservative Party members, who aren’t representative of the general population, or even a lot of traditional Conservative voters. The party has been hijacked by vultures. Vilifying those who voted based on what the party used to be have surely seen enough to realise what’s happened to it.

We absolutely need to redefine where the centre ground is, further to the left of where it is now, because that’s where we all actually are. Easy to say, far tougher to do.

The centre is a load of old nonsense, although -- like the Tories -- it's an extremely popular load of old nonsense. You've pretty much illustrated why it is a load of old nonsense in this post. Mind you, the political compass is a load of old nonsense too.

 

[beorhthelm]

So we all sit in the green, and all the political parties sit in the red.

Something is wrong here

probably depends who is answering on behalf of parties, then there's personal preference against pragmatism of public policy.

i'm pretty sure the compass results have been skewed right, there is no way our current and previous few governments are that far right economically (which is supposed to be the measure for the x axis). maybe the metrics have changed, i remember more economic questions.

 

[WATFORD zero]

The centre is a load of old nonsense, although -- like the Tories -- it's an extremely popular load of old nonsense. You've pretty much illustrated why it is a load of old nonsense in this post. Mind you, the political compass is a load of old nonsense too.

It's all relative. 'The centre' is always relative to an individuals views, and parties moving left and right, up and down, are relative to where those parties were when the individual first started to take an interest in politics.

All the political compass does is allows an individual to compare their thoughts on a set of pre-defined questions to those stated by famous people, political parties, Governments around the world etc. 'The centre' could be put anywhere