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from lisa Monday, November 13, 2006 - 02:19 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87 Who knew? (reply to this comment)

from Rain Child Monday, November 13, 2006 - 01:46 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -2.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21 Don't understand it though... (reply to this comment)

From Rain Child Monday, November 13, 2006, 01:51 (Agree/Disagree?) Just noticed I'm pretty close to where they put Ghandhi on the compass - I'm happy with that.(reply to this comment)

from MNM Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 15:10 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -8.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36 (reply to this comment)

from Oddman Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 13:49 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: 2.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.15 Am I an anomaly? I seem to be the only economic right aside from Ne Oublie, yet I also tend to be social Libertarian. (reply to this comment)

From Ne Oublie Sunday, November 12, 2006, 15:26 (Agree/Disagree?) Right, so I decided to re-take the test, and found myself moving even farther right! As well as somewhat more authoritarian - although that has more to do with the way some of the questions were phrased, I answered according to my own views, but that is a long shot from thinking government should be imposing views, whether mine or others'. Economic Left/Right: 7.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.23 I'm the only one in this quadrant so far!(reply to this comment)

from AnnaH Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 12:29 (Agree/Disagree?) Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -4.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.82 (reply to this comment)

From Samuel Sunday, November 12, 2006, 13:34 (Agree/Disagree?) That was fun. Economic Left/Right- 1.25 Social Libertarian/ Authoritarian- .26 (reply to this comment)

from Eric Cartman Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 04:35 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -0.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10 (reply to this comment)

from Vicky Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 07:14 (Agree/Disagree?) Regi, I just had a look at your profile, and you look really familiar... Did you go by Lorraine for a while, and is your sis Christy in Africa? I think I met you in Poland in '94... (reply to this comment)

from steam Friday, July 02, 2004 - 08:28 (Agree/Disagree?) Ended up -2.5 economics and -2.51 political. Interesting test. (reply to this comment)

from pharmaboy loves discordia Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 00:02 (Agree/Disagree?) "The liberal left makes sense, the right was formed to counter the left and fantazise about a wonderful past when everyone that mattered was a heterosexual, white christian and no one questioned big brother. The right really doesn't have a valid arguement, unless you consider paranoia and ignorance a valid arguement. Fascism's biggest problem was defining itself as a school of thought, their only sure points were patriotism and a hate of the left, kind of like the Anglican church when they first broke from the Catholic church." As for the economic left/right: "the current right would love a no holds barred market free to trash our home planet and use employees like disposable napkins, the left is too busy helping nature's damned and malformed to actually give a damn about the working, healthy average middle class, and does not realize that death is as important as life for a healthy balance on this planet." discuss these blanket statements. (reply to this comment)

from Regi Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 14:21 (Agree/Disagree?) Well, I'm (not surprisingly) Economic Left/Right: -3.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13 (I think that a lot of us who left TF would naturally be authority-averse) (reply to this comment)

from Ne Oublie Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 13:06 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: 5.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.21 As I've said, I'm RIGHT WING - not authoritarian! When will some of you learn the difference? (reply to this comment)

From Regi Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 14:24 (Agree/Disagree?) Ne Oublie, you might find this interesting since you live in the UK. I just copied and pasted it from the political compass site: A Few Words about "The Extreme Right" Once you accept that left and right are merely measures of economic position, the "extreme right" refers to extremely liberal economics that may be practised by social authoritarians or social libertarians. Similarly, the "extreme left" identifies a strong degree of state economic control, which may also be accompanied by liberal or authoritarian social policies. It's muddled thinking to simply describe the likes of the British National Party as "extreme right". The truth is that on issues like health, transport, housing, protectionism and globalisation, their economics are left of Labour , let alone the Conservatives. It's in areas like police power, military power, school discipline, law and order, race and nationalism that the BNP's real extremism - as authoritarians - is clear. This mirrors France's National Front. In running some local governments, they reinstated certain welfare measures which their Socialist predecessors had abandoned. Like similar authoritarian parties that have sprung up around Europe, they have come to be seen in some quarters as champions of the underdog, as long as the underdog isn't Black, Arab, gay or Jewish ! With mainstream Social Democratic parties adopting - reluctantly or enthusiastically - the new economic libertarian orthodoxy (neo-liberalism), much of their old economic baggage has been pinched by National Socialism. It's becoming the only sort of socialism on offer. Election debates between mainstream parties are increasingly about managerial competence rather than any clash of vision and economic direction. In the United States, the voices of dissent over unfettered market forces (ie extreme right economics) are heard from social authoritarians like Pat Buchanan as well as social liberals like Ralph Nader. As an example, take a look at the ground that the main English parties in the UK's 2003 local elections (May 1) occupied in reality. The difference between the BNP and the Greens in economics isn't great, but there's a huge gap on the social scale. Neither scale, however, reveals enormous distances between the Conservatives and New Labour.(reply to this comment)

From Ne Oublie Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 14:42 (Agree/Disagree?) Yes, I had read that - but thanks for posting it, hopefully it'll help some people to understand the difference.(reply to this comment)

from sassy Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 09:41 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -4.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92 (reply to this comment)

from Shaka Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 09:34 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -4.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.90 (reply to this comment)

from Haunted Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 08:54 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -5.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.67 Right in between Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama - and on the other side (complete opposite!) of the spectrum from G. W. Bush I might add!!!!!!! So, in case no-one's figured it out by now, surprise, surprise, I'm a Libertarian Lefty with beliefs in the middle of Communism/Collectivism and Anarchism -- poor Hume would be sooo dissapointed. On the other hand, I am aware that plans of government which suppose great reformation in the manner of mankind such as Plato and More can tend to be, as crticized, too imaginary - but one can hope, can't they. (reply to this comment)

from moon beam Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 08:34 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic left/right -5.50 Social libertarian/authoritarian -5.13 (reply to this comment)

from Jerseygirl Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 08:10 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right -5.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -4.21 (reply to this comment)

from roughneck Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 08:07 (Agree/Disagree?) yikes! Economic Left/Right: -7.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23 (reply to this comment)

From Jules Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 14:11 (Agree/Disagree?) Glad someone was further left than me. :) Economic Left/Right: -6.62 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85(reply to this comment)

from Elle Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 07:33 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -5.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.79 Right between Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. An eye for an eye and the world would be blind! (reply to this comment)

from pharmaboy Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 06:08 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -3.36 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.26 (reply to this comment)

from Vicky Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 06:07 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right -5.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -4.92 (reply to this comment)

from banal_commentator Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 05:59 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: 0.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36 ....What does this mean? (reply to this comment)

from frmrjoyish Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 05:57 (Agree/Disagree?) Surprise Surprise! I lean to the left! : ) Economic Left/Right: -6.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69 (reply to this comment)

from Dani Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 01:16 (Agree/Disagree?) Economic Left/Right: -3.88 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36 (reply to this comment)