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Roughly speaking Huck, the top left corner would be a fully planned economy run by a dictatorship. The top right corner would be full on capitalism run by a dictatorship. The bottom left corner would be a fully planned economy run by a very broad consensus and the bottom right corner is probably impossible, an extreme right wing libertarian thing? Everyone has to bend over but they get chocolates afterwards?

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Good breakdown...but why do you think most individuals end up in the Green zone (even some pretty conservative people I know ended up there all be it close to the center of the graph) but almost all politicians and people into politics end up in the blue, are they just more accepting of authoritative control and lean right because of that?

"political compass"... well, isn't that an oxymoron.

why would you want to answer a bunch of stupid questions, only to be put in a colored square of some sort?

stupid...

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

I'm the man in the box...and it needed some color...

OK then if you are going to bend me over I do expect some chocolates or something. I wonder about Palin though because I don't think she even understands her position.

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It IS OK if you call her Former Half-Term Governor Palin
"Just the facts, ma'am."

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" . . . On the outside now . . ."

You'd have to explain that to her first though.

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

I think I kind of answered the why in the post immediately before the one you've quoted here.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

Thinking about it, purple would probably correspond to the political and economic views of the National Liberals in Germany in the 19th Century, or Jörg Haider's "Freedom Party" in Austria.

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The more I learn, the less I know.

ok... just to show you who's the real radical around here...



and, I answered each question as honestly as I could...
considering the alternatives...

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Wow so radical and cynical...Lumpy your my hero!!!

Here is a more balanced test:

Political Spectrum Quiz

http://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/political-spectrum-quiz.html

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

According to this test I'm less radical than last week. Maybe it's the test maybe it's the fact, that I'm getting older.

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What's the ugliest part of your body ?

Radical Du-u-u-ude!

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Wow, it threw me more off centre...

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

What we have here is an opportunity to express our political and philosophical tendencies, in a forum that doesn't actually matter.
In the real world we are, by and large, given a choice of two, maybe three parties to vote for, and so we have to choose some kind of best fit, that matches at least some of our feelings, when it comes time to vote and exercise our choice in the real world.

It struck me earlier on this evening whilst watching a political debate here in the UK, that if you were a political wannabe (and I don't mean that in a cynical, sceptical way) you pretty much have to join one of the two or three main political parties, in order for your ideas to get any kind of coverage, and have any chance of exerting any influence. Compromises everywhere.
I can't see it changing, and to be honest, I can't really conceptualise a system that has a better chance of succeeding.

But, I am open to ideas.
And, I am one of the many eternal optimists that seem to populate this big blue marble.

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Guy Cool

you forgot to mention my great sense of humor!

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Ya I forgot..I was stuck on that hot trip your taking to Tierra del Fuego...

You're so professional Lumpy!

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This is my result....



Looks like I'm aligned somewhere between Nelson Mandela and The Dalai Lama alondside with Ghandi

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Don't know if I necessarily agree with the results, but interesting none-the-less for the 2012 US presidential candidates.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

They place Obama towards the same plot direction on the graph as Romney, Gingrich and Santorum in the authoritarian Right while Ron Paul is plotted on the liberatarian Right. It could be assumed that the closer the graph plot is to the edge, the more extreme. Ron Paul, according to the graph, is the most extremist, while Obama is the closest to the center.

My personal results haven't changed much from the liberatarian center left from over a year ago.

I'm guessing zombies, downer's (or however many different identities he's using here) ranking is type 7. idiot

I'm using ONE identity here. Downer Mydnyte.

Are you trying to discredit me? I am far too busy living my life to have multiple identities on a music forum. Don't be an asshole. My posts are unique and no one else here sounds like me. You're calling me an idiot? You're the one suffocating in political propaganda. What would be my agenda? I have no motivation to use various user names. I am not trying to sell a political agenda. I don't spout talking points. I'm an individual.

That chart is getting a reading on the Crapdetector...lol...