I wonder where do people here place on this political compass test.
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So about the same place I have always been on the Left-Right axis, but a pretty significant turn toward the Liberty side axis since the last time I took one of these a few years ago.
Huh, I wonder if there was something that happened that moved me toward Liberty over Authority over the last few years...
EDIT: That said, I do agree that many of the questions were pretty biased. I have also had a distaste of the 4-way axis compass and have come to value the Eight Values axis more. Since it gives more nuance on the questions and more ways to move instead of just "Right-Left, Liberty-Authority". For that one, my results are 66% "Market"-leaning, 75% "Patriot"-leaning, 53% "Liberty"-leaning, and 54% "Tradition"-leaning. It claims the closest political ideology to that is Neo-Liberalism, which I would contest. Maybe back in the 80's, and I do indeed agree with its proponents like Reagan, Hayek, and Mises. But with what it has come to mean, I still would rather call myself a Populist Libertarian, since that is essentially what Trump and a lot of the modern dissident movement are.
I went through the Eight Values one around two years ago.
I think that this one isn't ideal either. For instance, I think that the terms Progress/Tradition should be replaced by a less biased Modern/Traditional. Modernism isn't 'Progress' when viewed without the lens of someone who is at least modernity-leaning to begin with: there is nothing incongruent about the belief that modernism begets regression.
55% Market, 45% Equality (Centrist)
89.4% Nation, 10.6% World (Nationalist)
13.9% Authority, 86.1% Authority (Authoritarian)
82.4% Tradition, 17.6% Progress (Very Traditional)
Closest Ideology: Fascism (Shock! Horror!)
Note that I don't even think that Fascism actually is 'Far-Right' due to its origins in Marxist revisionism and its originators largely being fed-up anarchists, socialists and Marxists, and so I too object to the 'matched ideology'.
I haven't yet found one of these 'compasses' that I'm fully content with. I especially am not fond of questions in which the answer is situational. My answer for certain questions depends on where I'm picturing myself: am I answering as though I'm in my ideal-typical perfect society... or am I answering as though I'm in the pseudo-society of reality? I, for example, do not support government surveillance in any society in which it would clearly be used against my co-ideologists, but support it absolutely in any society in which it would be clearly used against those whose views with I am in antagonism. Thus a 'Strongly Disagree' can become a 'Strongly Agree' based on little more than a change in the surrounding milieu.