22 August 2007

Politics, II

From John's comment in my last post comes another political quiz, this one rating the actual quizee rather than the quizee's agreement with various candidates. The site doesn't give an easily copied code of the results, but after a few seconds of cutting and pasting, here are mine:



I didn't expect to be quite so deep on the Libertarian side, simply because I do favor some amount of business regulation. On their own, most businesses only care about profit. It takes some persuasion to get them to "care" about problems created by seeking a profit....

6 comments:

John said...

I was -6.63 (Left)
-6.41 (Libertarian)

Which puts me in the sme boat as you, since I feel the same way about unregulated businesses.

John said...

Also, did you notice that all current Presidential candidates (includiing the Dems) except Kucinich and Gravel are in the upper right quadrant?

Qalmlea said...

No. And Yikes!

Qalmlea said...

Oh, I think I figured out the "problem," mainly a problem of association. What the Compass is calling "Libertarian" refers only to social values. The left/right part is the economic scale, where left wants more regulation and right wants less.

John said...

You're right. I see that now. It's a little confusing that their definition of 'libertarian' isn't the common usage.

John said...

And Kucnich and Gravel are barely left of/below the center.