In the past I always ended up dead center. But If I took the test today I might be complete anarcho-capitalist. Of course the test is pretty weak and I don't give it much weight.
Yeah. I did the test again just to see what happened, and like usual I ended up straddling the line between Authoritarian and Libertarian (slightly more into Authoritarian), but pretty well into the Right. But that does leave out things like me being pretty Libertarian on "Should society mandate this or that moral belief" (the usual "I am against this, but I dont think the government should be involved" sort of attitudes) and I am against the Right on things like tariffs.
There was one I found that I tend to like more called the 8 Values Test, where it still measures the same sort of deal but it is an 8 point instead of 4 point graph.
The specific lines being "Equality vs. Markets" for Economic matters (Communism being 100% "Equality", An-Cap being 100% "Markets"), "Nation vs. Global" for Diplomatic, "Liberal vs. Authority" for Civil, and "Tradition vs. Progress" for Society, and then it gives you the closest established political movement to your score. So having done that one, I got 66% Market, 71% Patriotic, Moderate Civil (51% Authority), and 61% Traditional, with the closest alignment being "Moderate Conservatism".
That looks much better. Four dimensions is better than two. Some test-designer bias is still going to creep in. "Tradition vs. Progress" for example. If your culture has become dominated by regressives who despise traditional culture, while traditional culture was enlightened classical liberalism, then going back to traditions would be progressive. Maybe just a semantic distinction.
In the past I always ended up dead center. But If I took the test today I might be complete anarcho-capitalist. Of course the test is pretty weak and I don't give it much weight.
Yeah. I did the test again just to see what happened, and like usual I ended up straddling the line between Authoritarian and Libertarian (slightly more into Authoritarian), but pretty well into the Right. But that does leave out things like me being pretty Libertarian on "Should society mandate this or that moral belief" (the usual "I am against this, but I dont think the government should be involved" sort of attitudes) and I am against the Right on things like tariffs.
There was one I found that I tend to like more called the 8 Values Test, where it still measures the same sort of deal but it is an 8 point instead of 4 point graph.
The specific lines being "Equality vs. Markets" for Economic matters (Communism being 100% "Equality", An-Cap being 100% "Markets"), "Nation vs. Global" for Diplomatic, "Liberal vs. Authority" for Civil, and "Tradition vs. Progress" for Society, and then it gives you the closest established political movement to your score. So having done that one, I got 66% Market, 71% Patriotic, Moderate Civil (51% Authority), and 61% Traditional, with the closest alignment being "Moderate Conservatism".
That looks much better. Four dimensions is better than two. Some test-designer bias is still going to creep in. "Tradition vs. Progress" for example. If your culture has become dominated by regressives who despise traditional culture, while traditional culture was enlightened classical liberalism, then going back to traditions would be progressive. Maybe just a semantic distinction.