Religious/Political Profile thread

[comrade_general]

All is updated.

So, plenty of Ghandi's around here. Marcus and I are the only two who dip a toe into the other quadrants, but not the Nazi quadrant, so that's good. We're like the complete opposite of the example chart they give on the test site.

[Captain Carthage]

Well after coming to terms with my religion I took the test again and it appears I'm lefter and liberaler.

Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64
Religion: Agnostic

[comrade_general]

You did the right thing, Night.

There's something screwy with all our scores ending up so far left/liberal I think. According to the graph even I am more left/liberal than Obama. 

[Ladyhawk]

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.79
Your religion: Catholic

[Jubal]

cg: The test gives underlying motivations, the ones they show on the website are based on actual positions. The fact is that America is very, very far to the right as its baseline, and Obama isn't actually doing much about that or challenging the basis of the super-rich and corporate power being the main driving forces in society.

I'd bet that if Obama did the test himself he'd come out somewhere in the middle of the lower left quadrant. Due to the dominant economic theories all being very free-market based, even someone who is mostly in favour of a thriving, competitive market of small businesses and low personal taxation might well come out as to the left of a bunch of politicians who are happy to watch transnational companies turning a free market system into an oligarchy and sit on their asses.

NA: It's my corrupting influence, everyone seems to head left after a while on here. 

[comrade_general]

But even all of you here from the UK don't even come close to the graph they show of your parties (unless you're all Greens).

[Jubal]

The UK isn't really that far to the left of the US, economically. We have a few vestigial bits like the NHS and a slightly larger benefit system, but other than that we're economically running in pretty much exactly the same way you are.

[comrade_general]

Yes, but that's not what I was talking about.

[Jubal]

It means my point still stands about politicians all actually having very far economically rightwing policies, even if it's just because they can't be bothered or aren't able to act on their real beliefs.

[comrade_general]

I had my brother take it and he ended up right smack in with the rest of the republicans.

We're all just outcasts.

[Jubal]

Okay, maybe it's just my corrupting lefty influence again.

[Son of the King]

There are worse influences .

[Jubal]

Another random political test I found recently, found it quite interesting (though I prefer the Compass as an indicator still)
http://www.politicaltest.net/test/

Here's my result:
http://www.politicaltest.net/test/result/128700/

[comrade_general]

My results didn't seem to match up with my answers.

[Ashanorath]

-5.50, -2.97
For religion put atheist