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"Zoot" wrote:

Take this test it is sort of interesting.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

I don't think I've seen this version before. So here goes...

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 4.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 3.28

Even this doesn't tell the entire story. I have religious views that
probably prevent me from being more right/authoritarian then this test
shows.

The Graphic depiction is some thing I¹d like to track. Getting old
and values as a image changing. Cool. Still lots of questions that
separate us folks with the garden a given in common.

Bill

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA


I would be interested to see how others here score. I know I tend to be
quite far to the right, though I'm not far enough to the right to be
considered an extremist. Some of my views are suprisingly liberal, though no
one would ever accuse me of having socialist tendencies. How did you score?
And then I'd be interested in seeing if there is any correlation between the
love of gardening and ones scores on this test.

I'm not sure if age has changed me all that much. When Ronald Reagan was
first running for president in 1980 was when I first started to pay
attention to politics in general. I very quickly realized that the democrats
and liberals just were not making a lot of sense. I understood what they
were saying, but I didn't agree with them, and I most definitely didn't want
the things they wanted. I very quickly realized that I had conservative
"values" and beliefs. No one taught me this - it was the way I was, and they
way I belived things should be.

A friend of mine at work told me something very interesting the other day.
According to him ( and I have not found reason to disbelieve this ), someone
(don't know who) did a study of people's beliefs with respect to authority
and control in the family. Some people felt they were the absolute authority
in the home, and would discipline their children strictly. They also
believed in giving their children their values, so that the children would
grow up believing as they did.

Others were not so authoritative. They felt that children should be loved
and nurtured, but allowed to find their own path in life. Discipline was
soft, and the focus was on discussion and counseling instead of punishment.
And of course there are people everywhere in between. I don't think their
sample population had a normal distribution, but tended to have fewer people
in the middle and more people towards the edges.

The also found a very strong correlation between authoritative people and
conservatives, and between the latter group and liberalism. I found this to
be very interesting, and it helped to answer some of the questions I had
about why people did and believed the things they did.




Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.25

Bill who listens to http://xpn.org/

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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA