Next Round of Political Compass bingo

We’re about the same! On the chart. If not exactly the same.

Interesting evolution, Mack.

Yet I also have this feeling that your core principles are the same. Do you think that’s accurate? They’re moral, and grounded. WV has talked about how he used to identify with the thoughtful and philosophical right of the old generation stellar conservatives.

Interesting evolution, Mac.

Last time I took the test — a year or two ago — I had minus 9s. Put me pretty close to where you are, if memory serves. May take it again in the near future.

One can find the Ur-test online, I’m pretty sure. This one is based on Adorno’s F-Scale.

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wv wrote:

Basically, staying in the realm of whats do-able, I’d like to see America be a nation of a gazillion SMALL businesses. I dont mind SMALL-capitalism, if thats what ya wanna call it. I’d like to see all the big stuff socialized. Energy, Transportation, education, health-care, environment-care. I’d like to see corporate-personhood destroyed.

I think Americans define “capitalism” in different ways, so that’s a bit of a problem. We’d have to agree to a definition, for starters.

For righties, in my experience, it just means trade and commerce and business (in general) in the private sector, which isn’t how I’d define it at all. It’s historically unprecedented and fairly recent, and America itself wasn’t a “capitalist” nation until after the Civil War.

So, again, we’ve have to come to some kind of agreement about what it is and isn’t.

I fall back on this way of defining it:

1. You build custom chairs for a living. With your own two hands. No employees. You do everything, from A to Z, including sales and hauling your product to market. You’re not a capitalist.

2. You hire workers to build those chairs for you. They own nothing they produce. You legally own everything they make. You take the surplus value they generate, as if you did all the work, and it’s yours too. You decide how much to value their labor. They have no say in the matter, legally or in practical terms. You’re a capitalist.

I’m in favor of the first kind of commerce, not the second. I’d ban the second entirely.

My ideology places me in the green box.

But as I get older I’m less and less about ideology and more and more about evidence. Policies need to be evidence based.

My priorities are protecting the environment and improving the standard of living for all of humanity.

This will require huge investments in new research and technology. To solve the problems surrounding those issues will require placing ideology on the back burner. I’m anti-Big Corp, but I also understand that research is expensive and small companies don’t have the resources to do it on the scale in which it needs to be done. Administrations need to prioritize science and research. We need a ‘space race’ style effort to find new energy and agricultural technologies.

I just wanna know where Lassie falls on that political-cube.

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