Thursday, September 29, 2005 AD
Left to my own devices
| You are a Social Liberal (65% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (13% permissive) You are best described as a:
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So there you go. By US standards at least, I'm a socialist. Mind you, according to Andrew Sullivan, George W Bush is a socialist by US standards...
This result is, however, consistent with my most recent results on the UK-based Political Compass, which I took again a couple of weeks ago. Compare this with my previous results from a year earlier.
HT: Jason. I'm not linking the actual quiz as the site concerned has some very dubious content (though on the plus side, I now know where to go if I want to find someone with whom to have a casual fling in Bexley, which is where the banner ads seemed to think I live).
One thing I found interesting was the division of the political map in the top graphic. Would any US readers care to comment on the accuracy of that? The one comment I have myself is that the survey's use of the term "economic liberal" is rather confusing, since normally I'd take that to mean "neoliberal" in the Milton Friedman, Margaret Thatcher sense.
