If the political compass was accurate, than even in with the most right-wing results I got I'm apparently only as far right as Obama and as libertarian as Jill Stein. So, yeah, that chart is complete bullsh**t.
Again, you continue to see things from solely an American perspective. On a worldwide scale, not the kind that relies heavily on an Overton Window within a particular contemporary context, Obama is a conservative.
Yeah yeah, I know Obama is conservative by international standards. But is he really that far to the right?
He's that far to the right because
the entire American political spectrum is skewed that far to the right. Is that really so hard to understand? You need to look outside the borders of America. It's the most capitalist country on the face of the earth, of course the left-wing politicians are going to be considerably far more to the right than their counterparts in Europe.
Is that really something you find unbelievable? The political compass is supposed to represent the political positions of people as far apart as Hitler and Gandhi. You really expected to find Obama firmly in the left quadrant? Of course Obama and Romney are going to be that close on the graph, that's the converging effect that the political system has on politicians. This is not something you should find surprising. As candidates Obama and Romney are going to be more mainstream and converged around similar positions than people like Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul.
That's not to say that Obama and Romney are exactly the same, but to pretend that they don't more or less agree on a significant number of positions is naive. Let's not forget we're talking about a President who adopted wholesale the opposing candidate's state healthcare reform plan. A healthcare plan based on markets and private insurance companies.
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