what do you identify as politically?

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what is it?

am right-wing conservative

[Packing an i5]

Far left. I support gun ownership and privacy rights but thats it otherwise Im Blue on any other issue.

Tax the Rich, legalize weed, gay marriage, Abortions legal and covered by government funding, Benefits and wellfare programs. Universal Healthcare.

I guess im what you call an extreme liberal, Hard core democrat or a Socialist take your pick.

Voted for Obama 2nd term.

[Angella]

Classic Liberal. Tend to vote Republican but have voted For Dems and 3rd party candidates. Think Milton Friedman.

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apathetic roll-eyed

[Ohmygonzo]

My political identity? I'm a Hippie.

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Far left. I support gun ownership and privacy rights but thats it otherwise Im Blue on any other issue.

Tax the Rich, legalize weed, gay marriage, Abortions legal and covered by government funding, Benefits and wellfare programs. Universal Healthcare.

I guess im what you call an extreme liberal, Hard core democrat or a Socialist take your pick.

Voted for Obama 2nd term.

GOOD MAN. Except the voting, that't bad, mkay?

[Chrysia]

Fed the fuck up.

[Pendulous]

apathetic roll-eyed

Fed the fuck up.

This and this. I'm a full supporter that defining political opinions is completely useless and is not helping the current situation in the U.S. If you want some kind of measurable definition of what I believe, I'm smack dab in the middle of everything.

[Mercadi]

Centrist, mostly, with a couple liberal ideas I can get behind, and a couple right-wing ones.

[Blueobelisk]

Politically uninformed.

[Kraenen]

conservative on some things, liberal on some things. take it issue by issue. mostly left wing conservative though.

[Deleted]

I wasn't exactly sure where i stand, so i took a compass test to roughly gauge my stances.

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I wasn't exactly sure where i stand, so i took a compass test to roughly gauge my stances.

that test place me like this

[Hooked]

Nationalist conservative.

[Adhemar]

compass test

Obama is right-wing authoritarian? Proof that this test is administered by radical, card-carrying, traitorous, commie pinkos!

Just kidding. But I laughed.

[Elegiac]

Socialist.

[Kurioxan]

My socio-political views are transhumanism and meritocracy.

Hmm on the compass, im center, sliiightly left and down.

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Obama is right-wing authoritarian? Proof that this test is administered by radical, card-carrying, traitorous, commie pinkos!

Just kidding. But I laughed.

What americans consider left, is still quite right, just less so than republicans :P

[Deleted]

European federalist, as well as European liberal.

[Slant]

Common sense seems to be the safest political stance for me so far.

[Cynon]

Right-of-center Libertarian.

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According to the political compass site people have referenced, the graph for the UK parties (circa 2010) is:



And according to the test I am:



Not sure I buy it, since not all western cultures view the political spectrum in the same way, which this test seems to assume, but it’s nice to be apparently closer in mind to Ghandi rather than Hitler. I'd probably consider myself more authoritarian than the test would indicate, in the context of my culture, since in the UK, issues like gay marriage aren’t as divisive as they are in America.

Edit: I actually voted Tory in the EU elections, and will probably do so in the general election as well, interestingly. However, economic policy is near the top of my reasoning, and it’s not so much I think that current Tory policies are great, but that Labour's are complete rubbish and are based on feelings ("it feels good that the rich should have to pay the 50p rate, therefore it must be good for the economy").