Do you actually think the way you think you think?

This morning, a Tweet popped up from one of the people I follow. Well, not from a person, but a reTweet by BitChute. The person who originally tweeted it was Styxhexenhammer666 of which BitChute seems to reTweet a lot. My timeline, every now then, shows this longed hair shirtless man wearing a leather jacket and I don't know why. I think I watched one of his videos after finally getting the curiosity to see what he is all about.

He has a pinned Tweet with a quick bullet point of who he is.

I would say that I agree with a lot of his bullet points, but definitely not all of them. He has over 48,000 followers on Twitter, so I guess at a minimum, he must be entertaining.

This morning's tweet was about The Political Compass test results. The Political Compass tries to show you were you actually stand on the Left <--> Right and Authoritarian <--> Libertarian scale. Since just labeling politics as simple Left and Right is overly simplifying things, the compass tries to clarify things by showing that there is another axis. They are not the first people to come up with this method of measuring politics, but they have been around since 2001 letting people take the test to see if they think the way that they think they think.

The political compass is a multi-axis political model used by the website of the same name to label or organise political thought on two dimensions. In its selection and representation of these two dimensions, it is similar to the Nolan Chart and Pournelle chart. The term "political compass" is claimed as a trademark by the British website Pace News Limited, which uses responses to a set of 61 propositions to rate political ideology on two axes: economic (left–right) and social (authoritarian–libertarian). The site also includes an explanation of the two-axis system they use, a few charts which place various past and present political figures according to their estimation and reading lists for each of the main political orientations.

~ source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass

Taking The Test

I don't remember if I have taken this test before, since it has been around since 2001. It is a simple test with six pages of questions. Your answers are either Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree or Strongly Agree. Which means, there is no middle ground for the questions, you can't sit on the fence, you have to choose a side.

Some of the questions are a little ambiguous, so it was a little difficult to pin them into what I thought I think would be the correct answer. Sometimes, answers to things aren't just black and white.

Some of the questions are definitely direct and if you didn't know them, then you have been blind to politics. Congratulations. However, if you did know the question and you go strongly disagree or agree, then I am betting you will not end up in the middle of the compass. These are sink or swim questions and should be obvious to anyone who has done any arguing about politics.

The Results

After you finish, you are sent to the Analysis page, were they break down why they created the test and explain more about the compass.

The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( ie an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (ie extreme deregulated economy)

In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily “right wing”, with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today’s Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.

There is more on the page to learn, so you can read it when you finish your test.

After the explanation is finished, they give you your break down.

Your Political Compass

• Economic Left/Right: 2.88
• Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.69

This is the coordinates of where you lie on the x/y graph. They also give you an image to correspond with those coordinates .

I guess, to my surprise, I'm not as to the Right as I expected, nor to the Libertarian side. Again, this could be blamed on the questions and my reluctance to Strongly Disagree or Strongly Agree on certain statements.

Now, where Styxhexenhammer666's Tweet comes in, is that he drew up a guide reference to help people really understand where they are on the political spectrum, because 4 big squares isn't information enough.

Styxhexenhammer666's Compass may or may not be agreeable to everyone. I'm not sure if he really put any scientific basis behind his labeling, but it does seem to be generally correct. I like the idea that "Filthy Commies" is such a big block. Basically, there aren't many steps to the Left Authoritarian before you go full Commie. You'll see that below.

Some people have a complaint about "Heritage" and I think "Wears a Che Shirt" is probably a little low on the Authoritarian scale, because usually those people are screaming at people about everything. Then again, some of those people are clueless about who Che was. Anyway, I overlayed my results onto Styxhexenhammer666's Compass.

This makes me feel a little better, but it would be nice to be in "You Can Have My Guns When You Peel My Fingers Off the Grip You Statist" section. To be in that section, you have to be an atheist or totally against organized religion like Styxhexenhammer666, which is not me.

And, that's probably where The Political Compass fails me. I do believe that people get morals from religion, whether they are a member of a religious group or not. They are mostly likely influenced by someone who is a part of a religious group.

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . . . Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams (Founding Father)

Conclusion

I think, that this country is failing its citizens because our education system, news and media has been controlled by "Starving my people is a small price for the good of the party :)" folks for too long. I don't know if it will take a second Civil War or some other major event to change how things are heading. It could be possible that we could get more moral and religious people into office to right the ship, but after the Kavanaugh hearings, who would?

The Political Compass is probably not 100% accurate and I think they know that and are doing their best to get it as accurate as possible. However, I do think that taking that test and seeing where you are in a overall grid or even the Styxhexenhammer666 Compass is useful. It should make you think about what you think you think and make sure you adjust your thinking.

Finally, at the end of the Analysis, they let you get a certificate to show that you are who you are, even if you don't think that's who you are. On that certificate, they put a bunch of famous political people and how they fit on The Political Compass. Some of these placements are surprising and others are not surprising at all. As I mentioned before, "Filthy Commies" is a small step.

I'm glad to be on Milton Friedman's head.

So, why don't you take the test and post your results!

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