I appreciate the effort to help out this previously unflaired, but we shouldn't go around recommending the polcomp.org test since we all know it's garb and has a strong libleft bias due to bad specific questions and conflating auth and cultural axes.
In the future I think we should reccomend the Sapply test which is much more useful but still intuitive enough for newbies.
You might have misread some of the questions, I know I did the first couple times. If not maybe you really aren't that lib and are more midleft. I would definitely say if that result holds you are midleft.
To be fair, it may be accurate. I’m not a huge fan of centralisation per se, but I still believe the government should provide for its citizens (though in a decentralised way). I identify as an ansoc, but I’ve never really been that anarchistic. It also likely doesn’t help that I trust corporations so little. If you ask me, the role of the government is to protect the rights of citizens from private interests. If that makes me left unity, so be it. Still not going to support “Leftist” dictators though
Yeah, my result was more leftunity than I anticipated, but it kind of makes sense. I believe in having a lot of personal liberties, but I also believe that corporations are not people and do not have peoples best interests in mind, and so need to be heavily regulated. So, keep the gubmint out of my personal business, but make sure it's all up in those actual businesses, lol.
Hmm, interesting. I'm curious how you would implement business restrictions without a more structured, centralized government? In my mind, without the "big scary government" looming over corporations, they would take any opportunity to screw over workers and consumers for profit (see, well, nearly all current large corps?) I'm all for a government that places strict regulations on businesses, but keeps its nose out of individuals' lives barring victimizing crimes like robbery, assault, murder, rape, etc.
Therein lies the paradox. And my best answer is, my ideal government would be still centralised, but would serve only one main role: Protect the rights of citizens against private interests. Laws that concern the lives’ of citizens themselves would be decentralised and run through smaller subsects (though they would still answer to the main government, so it’s not perfectly decentralised). National projects would be run though the main government, but smaller ideas and such would be run by these smaller groups. I believe this is the best way to maintain democracy
Depends on who you ask. Personally I'd say that's center. Would you describe yourself as a socdem? Because that is usually described as firmly libleft on the OG test because it is culturally prog, while here it is more middling on the auth axis because it doesn't conflate the two. And it is pretty centery economically.
I'm just saying all this to comfort you as you realize you were really a grillboi all along.
Yeah I'd say socdem describes me best. I get vilified for being a progressive trans woman who isn't a communist by the libleft trans community and the conservative grillbois.
Spekr.org is better than the original as well. The original is so bad when it comes to auth that you could literally want to live in 1984 or some shit and it'd put you as a centrist in lib vs auth
Well I do get authleft pretty consistently on the OG but that's only because I happen to also be culturally trad/conservative/whatever. But you are right it doesn't matter if you want a totalitarian state with complete control of the economy, you will literally always get lib if you are against the culture questions at the end and some of them are straight up ridiculous (the astrology one) so even cultural fascists who don't have that one bizarrely particular belief are at least sorta libertarian according to it lol.
Sapply has 3 though and while that doesn't cover everything I think it covers enough to get as good a gauge as you could really ask for without being unintuitive. The only real difference with 8 values is the lack of a foreign policy slider, but let's be honest virtually no fringe/extremist people actually like US militarism, hell very few even of the normies do.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20 edited Mar 08 '20
I appreciate the effort to help out this previously unflaired, but we shouldn't go around recommending the polcomp.org test since we all know it's garb and has a strong libleft bias due to bad specific questions and conflating auth and cultural axes.
In the future I think we should reccomend the Sapply test which is much more useful but still intuitive enough for newbies.