Young Writers Society

Take this test that shows where you are in terms of your political beliefs. Share your results after!

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Also, share if you feel it was off and share where you think you actually are.

Scroll down to the bottom for your own results.

My results:








It says I am a centrist economic libertarian with very, very, very minute right-wing values, describing a balance between socially progressive views and strong right wing capitalistic views.

To put that in context, that is someone like Gary Johnson.

My opinion:
I somewhat agree with this. I am fiscally a conservative, but I am rather anti-authoritarian. This means that I am pro-free market, against big government programs (I do agree with some of them like ObamaCare though), for individualism over collectivism, and for progressive thought (gay marriage, pro choice, gun rights, etc.). I also a civic nationalist, which means I do not believe in getting involved in foreign countries, am anti-war, for closed borders, and anti-globalization. I am pro-legal immigration because that is what this country was built on. However, I am skeptical of multiculturalism and believe that if an immigrant wants to move here, they should assimilate to western culture and put their American identity first, while still observing their tradition.

This is basically what the founding fathers were. I do not like labels, but the if I had to, I would label myself as a "classical liberal", which is in between all-out libertarianism and above directly centrist to moderate authoritarianism.

Huh. No wonder I hate communism so much.

I scored both far left and far libertarian, making me a...communist anarchist? I don't know, it sounds really extreme to me. According to the certificate you can look at afterwards, where you can put in your score and it compares you to caricatures of various political/historical figures, I'm closest to Noam Chomsky and Bernie Sanders.

I think the economic questions were "harder" for me, because I hadn't really considered them before, at least in the way they were worded. So there were many questions where I had to think for a few minutes before finally picking "disagree/agree". The social questions felt more straightforward to me, so I agree more with my social score. As for my economic score, I feel like left ideals tend to work better in theory than in practice (see, the top left quadrant with Mao, Stalin, Castro), so maybe the theoretical nature of the questions tilted my score further left than expected.

I'm such a centrist lol. I do definitely lean libertarian - my only qualms with that are with big corporations which I feel can wind up exerting as much oppression as an overreaching government. I'm pretty sure the reason I'm such a centrist is because I don't feel like I know enough about economics to give informed opinions on a lot of policy questions, and the other half of it is that my personal values are pretty conservative/right-wing, but for me the gap between "things I think people shouldn't do and I wouldn't do" and "things people should not be allowed to do by the government," is huge, with latter a *lot* smaller than the former.

Mea wrote:I'm such a centrist lol. I do definitely lean libertarian - my only qualms with that are with big corporations which I feel can wind up exerting as much oppression as an overreaching government. I'm pretty sure the reason I'm such a centrist is because I don't feel like I know enough about economics to give informed opinions on a lot of policy questions, and the other half of it is that my personal values are pretty conservative/right-wing, but for me the gap between "things I think people shouldn't do and I wouldn't do" and "things people should not be allowed to do by the government," is huge, with latter a *lot* smaller than the former.

That's basically the same thing I got. However, I was just a hint next to you.

Seems like most of our generation are either libertarians or culturally Marxist Bolsheviks.

Mine kinda looks like Ghandi and Bernie Sanders and Niteowl!

fortis wrote:Mine kinda looks like Ghandi and Bernie Sanders and Niteowl!

I would think Bernie would be a little more above. He was a socialist, but not an anarcho-socialist. I'd say Jesus would be around there too haha

According to the website's thing where they put famous people on the map, Sanders is actually further below me.

I know Sanders wouldn't be like Lenin or famous authoritarian socialists (even though the Bolsheviks were originally anarcho-socialist before taking power), but, while the closest thing to an anti-establishment Democratic candidate, he himself was not anti-authoritarian. He had some left-libertarianesque ideas, but he was definitely not in favor of limiting certain sectors of the government.

He is, however, the closest thing to a left-libertarian who has ingrained himself into mainstream US politics.

An extreme example of left-libertarianism (anarcho-socialism) would be the United States' growing N̶e̶o̶-̶B̶o̶l̶s̶h̶e̶v̶i̶k̶ ̶M̶o̶v̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ Antifa faction.

I scored -4.5 on the economic scale and a -7.1 on the social scale.

Yeah, I'm not surprised being in the Sanders/Nite/Fortis quadrant, lol. I do agree that some of the questions were weird. Particularly for me it lacked nuance. For example the one about 'agree/disagree : does astrology explain things?

...yes. It is the study of planet movements and star charting, it can explain the orbits and comets and things we observe in the sky! But I put disagree because it was in the religion section and I think it was /trying/ to ask if I believed in horoscopes.

The economic questions were similarly weird and lacking nuance. I wish the questions were more specific and less general. Like the one: Government should penalize businesses that mislead the public. What do they mean by 'mislead' : do they mean fraud? conning people? cheesy advertisements? Like, depending on what it meant, my answer can go from one to the other.

This was an interesting test. Here are my results:



I'm actually a little scared by how left-leaning I am. O.o

@Audy - yeah, I feel like if the questions hadn't been so vague I would have been less centrist. As it was, I didn't put a strong opinion on a lot of them because I would immediately think of ways that could be misused or situations where I didn't think it applied.

I'm about halfway through both left and libertarian, which isn't totally surprising to me. If anyone wanted to know. Anyone at all.

Anyway, I agree with @Mea. I think it would have been helpful for many of the answers to be more specific.