Where Do You Fall Politically?

Posted by khalling 11 years ago to Politics
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Here is another one of those "tests " They say upfront you are to answer with your feeling so be prepared that your reason will find the phrasing of many of the statements you might tend to agree with, frustrating.

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  • Posted by plusaf 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    sorry... i'll try to use "alleged humor font" next time.. it was meant to be a sort-of pun on 'coming first' and 'chicken or the egg.'
    Sorry... :)
    </alleged humor>
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I make things, and I break things, and I teach people how to do both, as well as to figure out what they have made and possibly why it failed.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 11 years ago
    I want to know how on earth they deem Obama far authoritarian/Right.

    Authoritarian - for damn sure
    Right? Seriously

    Obama is so far left he would have to look over his right shoulder to bay at the moon.
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  • Posted by Maritimus 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi, K,
    Funny to observe that. Isn't it?
    P.S. I am now going to be very careful where I place my apostrophes, among other things ;-)
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  • Posted by Wonky 11 years ago
    I tried and bailed at the question:

    "Controlling inflation is more important than controlling unemployment."
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    You're right. All mainstream US candidates and senators were in the upper right quadrant. If all candidates are in that quadrants, what's the point of the other ones? The only thing I can think of is they're comparing US politicians to other countries' where they fall into other quadrants. This test suggests all politicians support the same bipartisan consensus.
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  • Posted by $ DriveTrain 11 years ago
    Take note: They've placed Obama in the upper right-hand of the "Authoritarian/Right" quadrant - which essentially calls into question the entire test, or at minimum the people who presumably ran BO through the test on his assumed answers.

    I ended up almost exactly where they put Friedman (Milton, not Marty, which latter I would expect to be a better match,) but... they think Obama is of the "Right"...!
    :rolls eyes:
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  • Posted by mso_apilgrim 11 years ago
    I must have failed this test... I was going for the perfect score of +10 on the collectivist/individualist scale and -10 for the relinquished-control/self-control scale, but my morality overrode the immorality of the quiz writers.
    Final score: 5.38 individualist, -4.36 self-control.
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  • Posted by Maritimus 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Only after looking more carefully I realized that Obama and Castro are placed where their heads are and not where they "stand". Sigh of relief!
    When I saw that I was almost exactly in the same location where they placed Milton Friedman, I was delighted.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Fair enough. I didn't like the biased test any more than anyone else did. Regardless, I come first.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I am sorry, good friend, only if you are speaking about individuals. You answered a GROUP question. please check your premises, respectfully
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  • Posted by strugatsky 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    When YOU come before everyone else in YOuR mind, I accept that as the way it should be. But the question was WHOM do you judge to be more important out of a choice of two other classes. Is a failing manufacturer of a failing widget more important that Aristotle? Is a Black manufacturer more important than a White manufacturer?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I am a manufacturer, and I come before everyone else in my own mind. You may construe this as authoritarianism. To me, it is selfishness in the AR sense.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    My score was 8+ on the economic scale and -2.4 on the social. Not surprised about my economic rating; surprised about the social. As I mentioned earlier, they view capital punishment as restrictive of freedom, for example, and I would argue that to death...
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