Forum Research, Posters' Political Compass
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Not surprisingly libertarian left. I'm not going to do the test again, but basically I'm Ghandi.
Oh, and Colpy is Mussolini.
Seriously, though.. give people social freedoms, but have a tightly controlled economic system and we all win.
That is quite the compliment you gave Colpy - They say Il Duce was hung - Now I do not want to know how you knew. No how no way.:wink:
Economic Left/Right: 8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 4.92
Do I hear Jack Boots in the background:smile::smile::smile:
That would mean that either questionnaires like this one and the ones by the CBC some time ago are completely wrong....or....I've been fooling everyone in the forum into believing I'm a right wing gun toting extremist...
That would mean that either questionnaires like this one and the ones by the CBC some time ago are completely wrong....or....I've been fooling everyone in the forum into believing I'm a right wing gun toting extremist...
Or perhaps you simply have no idea what you are talking about. I would go with that one.
Economic +4.38
Social-1.28
I don't like how we are forced to answer on some of the questions or perhaps more correctly how they are worded.
Social-1.28
I don't like how we are forced to answer on some of the questions or perhaps more correctly how they are worded.
Can someone explain to me the difference between libertarian left and libertarian right? Seems to me that depending on what you define one as, it makes the other an oxymoron.
IMO, a libertarian on the left would want more government regulation of business (particularly big business) while a libertarian on the right wouldn't. In short, the interests of the individual trumps the interests of collectives.
It looks to me that left libertarians and right libertarians are on the same side for one thing (libertarianism) but on opposite sides for another. But what exactly do they oppose each other on? What you've just described is a varying degree of the former: i.e. you said left libertarians are less libertarian than right libertarians, which means that libertarianism is really a right-wing ideology and so left libertarianism doesn't really exist.
Libertarian left will give individual social freedoms, but the government takes control of economic freedoms.
The extreme example would be, showing up naked at the office, but everyone gets the same pay.
Libertarian right can show up naked with double-barrel shotgun to blow you away and take all your money.
I think you are looking at this as a black/white either/or issue. I don't believe it is. As I've always said, the political left and the political right want to control people, they just want the control for different reasons. The radical right, for example, want to make sure you aren't having gay sex and the radical left want to make sure you aren't buying an SUV.
A radical left libertarian doesn't trust corporations and a radical right libertarian doesn't trust government. They both have their bogeymen.