Call the US election

[Teaos]

A) She remains the same as she is now, and keeps the same policies. Since the Republican party will likely move slightly to the left to gather new votes over the coming years, she may well be too far right for the majority of its target base, and thus won't get in.

Not gonna happen. From what I've been reading this last day the general thought with conservatives is they want to move more RIGHT.

[Tsukiyumi]

...the general thought with conservatives is they want to move more RIGHT.

All the way to "Nazi", then?

[Nutso]

What is a conservative to Europeans, or anyone else for that matter? I've heard this before that the U.S. right-wingers would be extreme-righties in Europe, and that European right-wingers would be lefties in the U.S.

[Teaos]

Ok for an example from political compass.

America:



New Zealand:



Ireland:



Canada:



UK:

[Sionnach Glic]

What is a conservative to Europeans, or anyone else for that matter? I've heard this before that the U.S. right-wingers would be extreme-righties in Europe, and that European right-wingers would be lefties in the U.S.

Well, taking just Ireland for example, the Democrats could nicely sub in for one of our farther-right groups. As Teaos' graph pointed out, people like Obama and Biden just barely fall into line with our farthest-right groups. People like McCain and Palin would be labeled as theocratic fascists by every newspaper and political group in the country.

[Nutso]

Brian Moore ran for President?

Never seen it on a graph before, but I was certain Bob Barr would appear to be Libertarian, as he was chosen to represent the Libertarian Party. This certainly is an eye-opener. Chuck Baldwin is a right-winger.

I took a Political Compass test a year and a half ago. Alway kept it around because I assumed I would be a leftist liberal. Like Brian Moore. This is what it looked like:

Sweden here I come.

[stitch626]

Where could I take said test?

[Nutso]

Where could I take said test?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

[Sionnach Glic]

Here's some more examples of where certain important people stand:


Interesting to note that Bush is effectively a more right-wing version of Mugabe.

And where do I stand?

[Lt. Staplic]

I can't open the link here at school. i'll try at home later.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I must be Rochey's long-lost American cousin.



Keep this away from the US government, or I'm a goner!

[stitch626]

Here's mine, though it would be different if they had a "don't care" option.

Ok, trounle linking, so I'll just give the stats.
Economic Left/Right: -5.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.03
Basically, in the green, but close to the middle.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Stitch's graph:

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Here's mine, though it would be different if they had a "don't care" option.

I'm sure they do it purposefully, to force you to choose one way or the other. Otherwise, someone could choose "don't care" or "don't know" to any of the questions they're sorta on the fence on and they couldn't get any real results. It's assumed that any subtler inclinations would come through when you're forced to choose at gunpoint, so to speak.

[stitch626]

Yeah I figured as much.
Thank btw for putting that up.