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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (16010)	4/4/2006 5:26:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 541603

I came across something that might amuse you. "Morality-Based Political Test. Very interesting. Many of you have probably heard of politicalcompass.org From what I've see, it's pretty good. But I think the test they have over at moral-politics.com is better. I find its results to be more accurate. In light of people discussing different ideas about a centrist party or centrist coalition with certain candidates being the core of a new platform, I though this test would be useful in showing people how different one's political views can be when the antiquated "Left-Right" paradigm is abandoned. This one, like Political Compass, functions on a 2 axis system. The vertical score is Moral Rules (fiscal views). It's reflects one's moral views in terms of economics and fiscal philosophy. To translate into Left/Right terms, the bottom is "Far Right" and the top is "Far Left" or, in other words, Libertarian vs. Anti-Libertarian (populist, collectivist??). Anyhing below the center has a negative number score, anything above it has a positive number score. The horizontal score is Moral Order (social views). It reflects one's moral views on social issues in terms of degrees of "Non-Conformance" (Left/Libertarian) and "Conformance" (Right/Social Conservative). I suspect that views of the geopolitics are included in this score by some of the questions. To the right of center has a positve score and indicates for conformity to social order (social conservative). To the left of center has a negative score and indictaes less conformity (social liberal). It also reflects general scores for countries, parties, religions and presidents. My score wasd negative 2 on Moral Order (social) and negative 3 on Moral Rules (economic). Seen this way, we see lots of overlap between peoples scores of different parities on different philosophical areas of policy. Take the test and report your score. Have fun." centristcoalition.com I score a -1 on moral order and a -6.5 on moral rules.