Political Left / Right Test

[Norexan]

Political Left / Right Test - IDR Labs

 

[Luminous]

50/50

 

[Maou]

Oh but I am an intolerant alt-right Nazi #spite

 

[Merced]

I despise this test

 

[Lark]

Genuinely in the middle.

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I despise this test

It does remind me of others like it, the political compass one or the politically homeless one, although it was a libertarian propaganda tool and I think the guys who created it admitted that.

 

[SD45T-2]

Right-Leaning Cetrist
45/55

I despise this test

Like what on earth does arugula have to do with anything?

 

[Lark]

Right-Leaning Cetrist
45/55

Like what on earth does arugula have to do with anything?

I definitely did not know what that was, I think the quiz could have been premised upon whether or not people were "open" minded and experimental or they were instead "creatures of habit", which, for various reasons, I think can be a mistaken way of defining the left and right wing divide.

Its a mistaken way that is ironically actually really popular with people who self-identify as left and right wing too.

It said I was in the middle, I favour radical redistribution of wealth and power, participatory democracy and participatory economy, replacing tax as a form of public revenue with public enterprise and rents, universal health care, universal basic income, all of which, I'd guess, would be considered left wing thinking. On the other hand I believe in personal responsibility, heteronormativity, family life, I dont like gun culture but I dont care too much about gun ownership and other sorts of similar proprietorship and favour a rebalancing of public attention from the lives and visibility of minorities to that of the majority. That's not conventionally left wing either.

 

[Maou]

Arigula is a vegetable a lot of vegans eat. So people on the green side of things?

 

[Lark]

Arigulra is a vegetable a lot of vegans eat. So people on the green side of things?

Veganism is left wing? Was Hitler not a vegetarian?

 

[Maou]

Veganism is left wing? Was Hitler not a vegetarian?

People who are vegans generally support a lot of green policy, which is largely a talking point on the Left. So yes, Veganism can be considered Left wing by some.

 

[ceecee]

I eat arugula on my pizza.

 

[ceecee]

If participatory democracy is left, I'm way the fuck over there and since when is it impossible to be self-reliant and embrace personal fulfillment? I do both daily. I also hate this test. Property rights and social rights? Um, yeah, we have both every day in the US.

 

[Lark]

If participatory democracy is left, I'm way the fuck over there and since when is it impossible to be self-reliant and embrace personal fulfillment? I do both daily. I also hate this test. Property rights and social rights? Um, yeah, we have both every day in the US.

Can one exist without the other and are they really in conflict?

 

[Jaguar]

Like what on earth does arugula have to do with anything?

I prefer Kale. Where does that put me?

 

[Zhaylin]

I'm politically neutral though.

 

[Deprecator]

Seems like the test would predict that most people here are left leaning, irregardless of where they actually stand politically.

 

[Polaris]

Social scientists are idiots if they would predict anything about a person's political leanings based on this test.

It said 55% left, which is way off. I'm more like 80%-85% left.

 

[Lark]

Social scientists are idiots if they would predict anything about a person's political leanings based on this test.

It said 55% left, which is way off. I'm more like 80%-85% left.

I just wonder how these definitions arise and how they become accepted as fact.

A lot of what appears to be definitively left or right instead appear to be simply common place or universal values or at least ought to be (and I think actually are whatever anyone says about it).

I dont mean in some semantic sense either, like everyone supports self-reliance but has fundamentally different understandings of what that means, involves or typically looks like. Also some of the juxtapositions or dichotomies seem wrong. Like participatory democracy versus limited government. I could see a very participatory democracy also being a very limited form of government if it was effectively replacing salaried officials, apparatniks, functionaries etc. with the citizenry itself.

Plus there's a bunch of stereotypes thrown in there too, like the left being doves rather than hawks in foreign policy, not if you've studied recent history, in the UK and US the democrats/labour have been involved in as many foreign wars and as much militarism as republicans/conservatives, the same story exists in history, from the time of the French revolution at least.

Sometimes its a weird kind of over compensation, because they are aware of the stereotype and sometimes its a response to the opposite stereotype.

Lenin's state and revolution was totally libertarian and small state in orientation but when he was the architect of one of the greatest red terrors ever because he thought if there hadnt been one there'd have been an even greater white (establishment) terror instead, the sort of big government that grew up after that was largely rationalised the same ways.

 

[Maou]

Social scientists are idiots if they would predict anything about a person's political leanings based on this test.

It said 55% left, which is way off. I'm more like 80%-85% left.

Politics is a spectrum. Being 100% of anything makes you an extremist. Which I doubt you are. The Left wing also contains Communism, and Socialism, not just Liberalism.

 

[HoneyBlossom]

Left-Learning Centrist

Left - 55%
Right - 45%