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    Wonder how accurate this politcal test is?

    This seems to be a very popular one that people use to chart a person's political ideology. Normally I question these types of tests, because you never know who was behind them.

    Any for the heck of it...this is what I got. Still not sure what it all means except I am to the right of center a bit.



    In case any of you want to take it. http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

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    These questions are too broad.

    Looking at them purely objectively, I cannot side one way or another without additional qualifiers. As it is, I'm basically choosing answers based upon how I know it will reflect on the final score, which completely invalidates the whole process.

    Take this for example:
    It is regrettable that many personal fortunes are made by people who simply manipulate money and contribute nothing to their society.
    I want to say "strongly agree" because of my hatred of resellers who buy up all the .22 at walmart and resell it for inflated prices. However, if I hit strongly agree, its going to think that I'm anti-bank, when I reality I support the idea of banks being used as money multipliers.

    Maybe I'm just over thinking this.
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    Or how about this:
    A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
    I absolutely believe this to be true, yet I choose to live in a society that is run less efficiently in order to allow public political participation and to limit the development of tyranny.

    So WTF am I supposed to answer?
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    you're supposed to say no to communism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by miketx View Post
    you're supposed to say no to communism.
    I could choose to put my dot in any corner of that graph by answering all the questions from one perspective or another.

    This test is bogus.
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    I'm going to guess that this is about the 5th time this test has been on here.
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    Nice bullseye, Mikey!
    Here is mine, seems "right" for me...

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    a little to the right for me:

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    I ended up right in the crosshairs. This test is bs.
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    As usual, its a toss-up between the Green Party and the Libertarian Party for me.
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    Total BS...

    It put me in the same Party as Stalin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by miketx View Post
    That looks like mine. I took this same test several years ago and was in the center of the blue quadrant. Must be an age thing

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    It has Obama on the right. How accurate can that be? And Mitt Romney is more authoritarian than Obama........

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