I consider myself a conservative. Overall, my political position probably averages out to center-right, but with wild variations between different fields. All in all, the political corner which fits my issue positions the best is Trump-style right-wing populism. I'm not really fond of his antics and rhetoric though. What I would really love to see is "trumpism without Trump" under the banner of a smarter, less erratic leader like Vance or DeSantis.

we had a thread with compass testing once

I would like to have a test.

Conservative in the sense that I'm against changing things if the alternative isn't an improvement and simply unsustainable as we often see with woke far left policies (I vehemently oppose woke "progressive" far lefties for that reason).

For example:

Opening the border to allow a flood of illegal migrants which only triggers more migrants from even further away to show up at your border.

Legalizing all drugs, causing crime and the homeless drug addict crisis to spiral out of control.


Then doubling down by calling those that are pointing out the problems Trump cultists or fascists (see what I did there?)

Not wholly accurate. I'm generally in the area just above and right of majorblood in this picture,

No chance that is where you end up imho

Mine:
Your Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.03

Could be though because some of the questions are different than what they were a decade ago

This post was edited by Bazi on Oct 12 2024 09:21am

Don't see Jeffersonian liberal which in todays context/political environment would be considered FAR-RIGHT.

Voted RIGHT.

I really don't think a political compass from times before the trump-era political realignment gives an accurate picture of where folks stand today.

Just 12 years ago, we were still debating about gay marriage and fiscal conservatism, Republicans were most popular in country clubs and Obama still enjoyed residual loyalty from Rust Belt union workers due to the auto bailouts.

I don't see why it shouldn't. It makes a lot more sense when you realize left / right don't correspond to democrat / republican, and the actual party line is a bit of a diagonal where neocons and neoliberals are both democrats now, but republicans have captured a swathe of liberal libertarians
Obama always had that authoritarian liberal streak, but social moderates who are fiscally conservative wound up straddling the line between the parties and could flip from one to the other. And when Gretchen Whitmer mandates anyone violating lockdown orders be arrested and then poses in mockery of the eucharist with a tranny, I'd say democrats are working hard to tilt that diagonal to the exclusion of the normies.