Kantor said:
I've heard people saying that the Political Compass is left-biased, but this...
Firstly, the fact that it is associated with Libertarianism.com (incidentally one of the most hilarious sites I have ever seen - protect workers by abolishing minimum wage! Leave the UN and NATO to ensure the safety of Americans!), is a pretty obvious indicator of what it wants your result to be. Now, the questions.
Government should not censor speech, press, media, or internet
Did anyone disagree with this?
Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft
Same as above.
I mean, two of the social questions, or 40% of the tests, are pretty much the most centrist statements I have ever seen. But that's not too awful. What's awful is the economic questions.
End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business
What? "Corporate Welfare"? That's what they're calling a bailout which is going to save thousands of jobs and billions of investment dollars? I disagreed, despite the question trying to make disagreers sound like morons.
Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security
Not the phrasing this time, just the statement. If I don't want to abolish pensions, I'm a horrible evil socialist?
Replace government welfare with private charity
Completely abolish welfare? Completely abolish welfare? No disabled benefits? No unemployment benefits? Leave the poorest and most vulnerable people in society to starve? Even I'm not that right-wing.
Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more
Halve them? David Cameron is cutting by 25%, and it's going to pretty much destroy the economy. I voted "yes", though.
What surprises me is that I was pretty much the most right-wing member of this site after Machina according to the Political Compass, and I'm now a Centrist.
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