Subject: So I found a website.
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Posted on: 2014-08-19 16:51:00 UTC

I have no idea how reliable 'The Political Compass' is, but it's interesting. It purportedly shows that the last US presidential candidates were nearly identical, and, alarmingly, that all the UK main parties are drifting to the same place (at the bottom of the page).

But guess what else it's got?

It's got a test.

The result isn't a single left/right; I think their left-right scale is how much control the government should have over economics (which I think includes things like welfare/social security), while top-bottom is how much control they should have over social/moral issues. According to the results page, they peg Stalin as high government control on both, Thatcher as high on social and low on economic control, and, uh... most current US/UK politicians in the same place as Thatcher. ;)

So I'm curious; where do you (plural) fall when you take the test? I'm way down in the green (yellow? Colourblind), at -6.50/-6.56... which apparently makes me more Dalai Lama than the Dalai Lama. I think I understand why I'm annoyed at the political system now...

(If enough people feel like doing it, we can make a labelled graph; they have a page for that. Also, if there's something bad about the website, do let me know; I've only skimmed it)

hS

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