| mrstickball said: HappySquirrel is the first person I've ever seen to classify as a right-leaning libertarian from PoliticalCompass.org. Interesting. |
There are a lot less libertarians and communists for a reason, and people who think they fall under that category probably arent as extreme as they think they are. My reasoning is as follows:
People want some freedom and some control in their lives. Most people who want the market to be as free as possible also want to control their social environment by limiting gay rights, putting more religion into politics, and taking social freedoms away to protect themselves from terrorists (Patriot Act). However, most people who want more control over the economy also want more social freedoms.
This is why most people (in respect to this test and system of analysis) lay somewhere on a diagonal line from social conservative and economic liberal (upper right corner) to social liberal and economic conservative/authoritarian (lower left corner). Effectively choosing where they want freedom and where they want some control in their lives.
