General political discussion

[Glaurung]

Welcome to Exilian! Some people here like politics, or talking about it; some don't. I hope you'll find things you want to talk about - please feel free to explore and post.

On the Political Compass specifically, I struggle with it, as I do with a lot of other surveys. The propositions are often complex, and my responses very rarely boil down to (strongly) agree/disagree. Nevertheless I'm fairly sure I'm somewhere in the anarchist/left quadrant.

[Glaurung]

And also, some interesting and depressing thoughts about the era of post-truth politics that we now seem to be entering. Note that this is "post" as in "after". Some of it is especially pertinent to the EU referendum in the UK - Boris Johnson may have been playing a very long game.

[Ottorommel]

It is good We've got a political compass graph of Exilian members in this thread, though it hasn't been updated in a while:
http://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=339.0

Also, welcome to Exilian! Hope you stick around, do give us a shout if you have any questions/issues!

Wow, that is a whole lot of left libertarian! Haha, thank you for welcoming me! Between the board games, Mount and Blade, and politics- I think I'll fit in pretty nicely.

[Jubal]

Aye Always good to have more people around!

[Pentagathus]

No it's not
Go away.
Shoo!

[Jubal]

^ This is Pentagathus, he's the unwelcoming committee to counterbalance the welcoming committee

Anyway!

I think the post-truth politics thing is interesting, but I think portraying it as a move away from evidence based politics may be too rosy a view of the past...