Sunday, December 14
I know I've taken this before, but it's been a few years, I've changed, the test has changed. And it's a good thing to check with elections coming up....
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21
This puts me in the lower left-hand quadrant of the graph, somewhere near the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela - oddly enough, not people I have much respect for, as they tended to go back on their own stated morality with great regularity. Still, there's worse people to be near. I seem to be diametrically opposed to Bushie - no big surprise there.
What's really scary is this graph from the site depicting the primary candidates in this year's presidential election:
Now is it just me, or is this a little frightening? I mean, aside from the fact that there's only two people on the list remotely near my own political position and I've never heard of either one. But I thought that we were supposed to have a two-party system around here!
There is no candidate - save for those two - whose politics differ in a significant way from those of Bush.
Oh, they're better, no doubt about it. But it's the same. Goddamn. Politics. Bushie's a bit more extreme than most, it's true. But every single candidate is an authoritarian right-winger.
Leave off whether you agree or disagree with their politics for a minute - just forget that. It's not the point. The point is that this is America. We are supposed to have a choice. We are supposed to be holding an election to choose what kind of politics we like or dislike. Now how in the hell can we do that when we're not being offered a choice in the first place? I mean, "Okay, how do you like your authoritarian right-wingism - hardboiled or soft in the middle?" Does that sound like a real choice to you?
Does that sound like democracy?
And, of course, if you're not right-wing, it means you'll be stuck voting for the lesser of two evils. Again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go bash my head against the wall for a while. If I do it for the next eleven months I may have sufficiently prepared myself for the election.
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -5.62
Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.21
This puts me in the lower left-hand quadrant of the graph, somewhere near the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela - oddly enough, not people I have much respect for, as they tended to go back on their own stated morality with great regularity. Still, there's worse people to be near. I seem to be diametrically opposed to Bushie - no big surprise there.
What's really scary is this graph from the site depicting the primary candidates in this year's presidential election:
Now is it just me, or is this a little frightening? I mean, aside from the fact that there's only two people on the list remotely near my own political position and I've never heard of either one. But I thought that we were supposed to have a two-party system around here!
There is no candidate - save for those two - whose politics differ in a significant way from those of Bush.
Oh, they're better, no doubt about it. But it's the same. Goddamn. Politics. Bushie's a bit more extreme than most, it's true. But every single candidate is an authoritarian right-winger.
Leave off whether you agree or disagree with their politics for a minute - just forget that. It's not the point. The point is that this is America. We are supposed to have a choice. We are supposed to be holding an election to choose what kind of politics we like or dislike. Now how in the hell can we do that when we're not being offered a choice in the first place? I mean, "Okay, how do you like your authoritarian right-wingism - hardboiled or soft in the middle?" Does that sound like a real choice to you?
Does that sound like democracy?
And, of course, if you're not right-wing, it means you'll be stuck voting for the lesser of two evils. Again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go bash my head against the wall for a while. If I do it for the next eleven months I may have sufficiently prepared myself for the election.
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