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Re: Political compass poll
Posted By: James, on host 138.73.75.208
Date: Monday, October 6, 2003, at 05:20:08
In Reply To: Re: Political compass poll posted by Sam on Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 22:35:32:

> Frankly, I find lib-left to be the least understandable quadrant to me. "Yes, we need government to regulate economics and provide social programs, and, oh yes, reduce the size of government!!"
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> I realize that there are ways to be lib-left and internally consistent at the same time, but my suspicion is that it takes some deliberate scholarly political research and self-reflection to arrive there.

That might be true, but, at least in this quiz, libertarian-left seems to be being defined as "the government should regulate economics and provide social programs, but impinge on the individual's civil liberties a little as possible", which seems a viable enough position to me. I found it a little confusing, since they used two or three seperate, often-loaded terms to define each point of the compass.

Spreaking as someone who has reasonably happy with where they landed, though, it did seem that the quiz's wording was skewed to favour lib-left answers.

James

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