America’s Compass is Broken!
A friend sent me this image of a Political Compass Test that I myself had taken as part of a Political Science class in college. Here, the current presidential candidates are plotted out according to the views they are campaigning with. I find it interesting how scewed the American socio-political perspective is in light of this chart. For example, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are viewed as left-wingers when in fact, they aren’t liberal minded at all! How did America get this way? I’m not saying we should be more liberal, just that perhaps we wouldn’t be in such and ideological quagmire if there was greater variety of ideas. It looks to me like almost all of our Presidential options are coming from the same point of view.

Now I ask you the reader, how do you view the candidates? Take the Political Compass Test for yourself and see where you fall on the chart. How many of the candidates align with your views? Respond here on randomn3ss… lets see which candidates really are candidates of the people!
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Comments
Lauren
Thought I should add, I fall somewhere between the Dali Lama and Gahndi, in the Left Libertarian quadrant. Go Kucinich (just please dont sing again!)
Mike Panic
I’ll start off by saying that there were only a few of these questions that I strongly agreed / disagreed with. I’m also not super crazy about politics, but there were some really interesting questions. Me:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92
This puts me pretty close to Gandhi.