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otolith said:
The Greens are pretty groovy about who you sleep with or what recreational substances you take - but crushingly authoritarian on other personal choices which are not included in the questionnaire.
Probably explains the SNP being libertarianDespite the fact north of the border singing certain songs sees you with a 4 month jail sentance
otolith said:
The questions relate to a number of key issues in (particularly) American politics. They sample a small subset of attitudes. Politics has moved on. As a result, the results can be anomalous.
The Greens are pretty groovy about who you sleep with or what recreational substances you take - but crushingly authoritarian on other personal choices which are not included in the questionnaire.
The questions often do not address key issues that determine political allegiances and often seem very leading.The Greens are pretty groovy about who you sleep with or what recreational substances you take - but crushingly authoritarian on other personal choices which are not included in the questionnaire.
In terms of the economic axis. The extreme left should be universal public ownership and a non-wage economy where everything is provided based on need. The extreme right should be no public ownership or regulation and only genuine public goods (lighthouses police etc) funded from general taxation.
On such an axis Labour might indeed by right of centre as they have abandoned their support for nationalised industries, but the Tories would only be a few points further right than them.
Putting a party that has many policies that are more social democratic than anything on the extreme right seems to me to be an example of bias. Or an attempt to corral the range of “permitted” views into a very narrow band.
JagLover said:
genuine public goods (lighthouses police etc) funded from general taxation.
One could (in theory) argue that lighthouses should be funded by shipping companies, and the police by insurance companies, thus taking the free market view to the limit. Both extremes should result in zero taxation. On the left because there are no wages, the right because there is no public expenditure.
JagLover said:
The questions often do not address key issues that determine political allegiances and often seem very leading.
In terms of the economic axis. The extreme left should be universal public ownership and a non-wage economy where everything is provided based on need. The extreme right should be no public ownership or regulation and only genuine public goods (lighthouses police etc) funded from general taxation.
On such an axis Labour might indeed by right of centre as they have abandoned their support for nationalised industries, but the Tories would only be a few points further right than them.
Putting a party that has many policies that are more social democratic than anything on the extreme right seems to me to be an example of bias. Or an attempt to corral the range of “permitted” views into a very narrow band.
The location of the centre point is somewhat arbitrary, the set of questions is lacking in scope, and the idea that you can entirely separate economic liberalism and social authoritarianism falls over the fact that to be economically left wing requires a socially authoritarian act of property confiscation. It's still an interesting way to tease out two dimensions of political dogma, and makes more sense than looking at them in a single dimension, but it's an imperfect analysis.In terms of the economic axis. The extreme left should be universal public ownership and a non-wage economy where everything is provided based on need. The extreme right should be no public ownership or regulation and only genuine public goods (lighthouses police etc) funded from general taxation.
On such an axis Labour might indeed by right of centre as they have abandoned their support for nationalised industries, but the Tories would only be a few points further right than them.
Putting a party that has many policies that are more social democratic than anything on the extreme right seems to me to be an example of bias. Or an attempt to corral the range of “permitted” views into a very narrow band.
Don said:
No wonder I am constantly cheesed off with politics in general.
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The graph is wrong. SNP can't be called the centre ground of British politics by anyone without a severe reality distortion field.Find out where you stand at http://www.politicalcompass.org
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