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Question: Accurate or not?
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« on: January 30, 2016, 07:35:47 PM »


Trump (along with the entire GOP field) is as authoritarian as Hitler, and Clinton is politically more similar to Ron Paul than Bernie Sanders. Discuss.
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2016, 07:37:14 PM »
Political compass is shyte.
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2016, 07:38:36 PM »
>hysterical laughter<
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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2016, 08:21:11 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2016, 08:22:48 PM »
« Edited: January 30, 2016, 08:24:58 PM by CrabCake the Liberal Magician »
I mean it's not as bad as when they claimed (as part of their "everybody is always getting more right-wing all the time hypothesis") that Labour in the 70's was more left-wing than in the early 80's, but still...

Also wasn't Obama in 2012 much further right and upwards than Hillary? And people normally say that #SHrillaryTehNeoliberal is right of Obama? Weird.
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2016, 08:24:17 PM »
« Edited: January 30, 2016, 08:32:25 PM by #TrumpTrain since 3/18/15 »
>Having someone outside the first quadrant other than Ron Paul
Close, but no cigar. My own hot take -
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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2016, 08:25:20 PM »
« Edited: January 30, 2016, 08:27:30 PM by DavidB. »
Trash.

Also:

Also, thinking that Sanders is right-wing is insane, and that's not because I think he's a commie who's going to take America to the Marxist revolution -- I actually like his ideas on healthcare.
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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2016, 08:25:36 PM »
Trash. We all know that Sanders is a far-right ideologue.
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2016, 08:26:44 PM »
Political Compass is trash.
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2016, 08:29:42 PM »
Quote from: clash on January 30, 2016, 08:25:36 PM
Trash. We all know that Sanders is a far-right ideologue.
Half of their write up is about how Sanders is an Obama style imperialist. But at the same time they think Obama is as authoritarian as Robert Mugabe while they rank Bernie Sanders as more libertarian than every other world leader. Huh.
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2016, 08:31:25 PM »
Complete BS
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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2016, 08:38:36 PM »
There, it's fixed.
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2016, 09:12:07 PM »
I fixed it to make it more accurate and relatable to this election season:
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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2016, 09:56:36 PM »
The rant below it is entertaining, as usual:

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« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2016, 10:09:11 PM »
Bernie should be in the left libertarian quadrant. Hillary can stay in the right authoritarian quadrant, but should be closer to the center. The Republicans shouldn't be all in the far corner.
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« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2016, 10:12:42 PM »
Complete and utter nonsense, like all of their charts.
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« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2016, 11:11:13 PM »
Why does the Political Compass think every western politician is a conservative (as evidenced by every election chart they've ever released)? Did Green Party hacks create this?
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« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2016, 11:29:03 PM »
Quote from: pho on January 30, 2016, 11:11:13 PM
Why does the Political Compass think every western politician is a conservative (as evidenced by every election chart they've ever released)? Did Green Party hacks create this?
No, they tend to put the Green Party as being only slightly on the left.
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« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2016, 11:34:08 PM »
The political compass in itself is trash so it's hard to work around that.
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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2016, 12:06:31 AM »
Quote from: pho on January 30, 2016, 11:11:13 PM
Why does the Political Compass think every western politician is a conservative (as evidenced by every election chart they've ever released)? Did Green Party hacks create this?

it was made by butthurt Militant Tendency supporters, I think.
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« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2016, 12:09:40 AM »
Seems a little funky, to put it mildly.
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« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2016, 12:18:20 AM »
I would like to take a moment to thank CrabCake for censoring That Face since heaven knows the moderators wouldn't take the time to block that out.
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« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2016, 07:45:57 AM »
Quote from: CrabCake the Liberal Magician on January 31, 2016, 12:06:31 AM
Quote from: pho on January 30, 2016, 11:11:13 PM
Why does the Political Compass think every western politician is a conservative (as evidenced by every election chart they've ever released)? Did Green Party hacks create this?

it was made by butthurt Militant Tendency supporters, I think.

This is correct. Sibboleth posted a good take down a couple years ago, but I'm having difficulty finding it. The main points were:

1) A lot of the questions were worded in such a way as to produce left wing answers (e.g. "Should globalization serve multinational corporations or people?" Basically every free marketeer would agree that question is a false dichotomy)

2) They never release what they answered for candidates to place them on the spectrum, presumably because they never did the quiz and arbitrarily placed candidates on the spectrum, or because their answers would have contained sketchy results.

3) They've condensed the entire range of right wing politics in the West today to a mere dozen or so squares in the top[ right quadrant, rendering comparison meaningless.
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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2016, 09:08:06 AM »
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« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2016, 10:40:36 AM »
Junk Chart! As if hillary leans right
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