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Quiz - are you left or right wing?

83 replies

flockwallpaper · 07/01/2010 14:01

With the election coming up, I thought it would be interesting to do this quiz

I come out as slightly right wing, tending towards anarchist

Please post your results - I'm interested to find out how similar, or diverse we are. I'm nothing to do with any political party, just curious

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electra · 20/01/2010 19:35

I fit with Gandhi as well...

almondfinger · 14/01/2010 19:59

Call me Gandhi II.

Far more left then I would have thought, I suspect even my husband is a little surprised as he slags me for my conservative leanings!

Love a good quiz.

Batteryhuman · 14/01/2010 19:30

Left -6.50, libertarian -6.77.

Somewhat more libertarian than Mandela, more to the left than the Dalai Lama

SkipToMyLou · 14/01/2010 11:13

www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-3.75&soc=-5.49

I agree, the questions weren't exactly unbiased. Pleased to be where I am on the chart, though I didn't think I'd be so far towards Libertarian - don't think DC would agree!

mumblechum · 14/01/2010 11:04

I'm in the bottom left box but q. close to the bottom right box.

Interesting, I think I'm getting a bit more right wing in my old age but this quiz doesn't bear that out.

Many of the questions were loaded, though, imo.

RamblingRosa · 14/01/2010 10:47

I'm more left wing and libertarian than the Dalai Lama and Gandhi

Ponders · 10/01/2010 11:15

with Gandhi & Mandela I think

thedogsgottago · 10/01/2010 11:05

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10

Im with Mandela...woo!

Rindercella · 10/01/2010 11:00

Just about the same as The Dalai Lama

TinaSparkles · 10/01/2010 10:57

i am pretty much Nelson Mandela

MitchyInge · 10/01/2010 10:51

right wing libertarian here too

let's unite and take over!

Harriedandflustered · 10/01/2010 10:49

Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.10

Which made me a left libertarian, but not much of one. Perhaps if I do this quiz in ten years' time, I'll hit the intersection exactiy

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flockwallpaper · 10/01/2010 10:42

Don't you find it interesting that the major political parties are authoritarian right?

Is it little wonder that so many people feel there is no real choice at this upcoming election?

Or are people becoming more left and libertarian in their views because they are sick of the status quo?

Your thoughts? I don't have the answers, just mulling things over.

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flockwallpaper · 10/01/2010 10:38

So if I have counted correctly, we have 38 replies.

82% of us are libertarian lefties (31/38)
16% (6/38) of us are libertarian right
2%(1/38) of us are authoritarian right

It's hardly scientific as we are a self selecting sample, but interesting nonetheless. Thanks

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DiamondHead · 07/01/2010 18:24

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.00

Jux · 07/01/2010 18:20

Just off centre left/libertarian

NotAnInterestingName · 07/01/2010 18:12

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thedollshouse · 07/01/2010 18:01

Left Libertarian. On the same spot as Nelson Mandela. I have done this quiz before and received identical results. Please don't tell me this makes me a wooly liberal, I have only read the guardian once and I had an urge to poke out my own eyes after doing so.

CarmenSanDiego · 07/01/2010 17:30

Big leftie anarchist.

Economic Left/Right: -5.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.9

wannatalk · 07/01/2010 17:08

Economic Left/Right: -4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38

somewhere between mandela and Dali Lama and Ghandi

seeker · 07/01/2010 17:03

I am an extreme left wing social libertarian - about as far into the bottom left hand corner as you can go. Which will be no surprise to anyone who has spent more that three and a half seconds in my company!

Nemofish · 07/01/2010 16:56

I test as a bit more anarchic than Gandhi!

Pretty much where I thought I would be.

itwascertainlyasurprise · 07/01/2010 16:55

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havoc · 07/01/2010 16:53

I'm another one snuggling up with Ghandi and Mandela.

Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authori5arian: -6.92

I have always thought I'm getting more and more right wing with age, so I would have been off the scale 20 years ago!

RainRainGoAway · 07/01/2010 16:45

I am also sitting with Ghandi - which amazes me as I am a true blue Tory. I know that is nothing to crow about on MN!

Very very surprised.