Left Wing/Right Wing poll {Fixed}

[Fight!]

Alright, choose which of the following you are and state which country you are from.

Socialist, Liberal, Center Left, Center Right, Conservative, Neo-Conservative

I am a socialist and I live in the U.S.

[Comrade the Colonel]

why do you show the voters under their decision?

[s.rwitt]

Conservative.


But not Republican.

[PSYCHO V]

Sorry, but I apparently don't fit into a box.
I'm equally liberal on some issues and conservative on others.

my2bob

[somerandomMinja]

I guess Ill classify as Center-Left/Liberal .

[Enemy of the State]

I can't vote since this poll makes no sense. It's far more complex. Liberals are often right-wing in other countries. Neo-conservatives are not far-right. So many choices are missing. Well I am a classical liberal/libertarian.

[Pious Agnost]

Socialist I SUPPOSE

[Gertrudius]

I voted center right, but upon further reflection I decided I should have picked conservative. I'm fiscally conservative but I hate both parties with a passion. Under the current state of affairs I find I vote for Republicans more often than not, but that's not saying a whole lot because I live in SE Idaho, and in local elections there is usually two republicans running against a democrat, or there is just two republicans running. I'm frustrated enough with the current political climate that I wouldn't vote at all if it was not my civic duty to do so.

Take it easy,

[ShockBlast]

Socialist I SUPPOSE

Social Democrats are center-left not left - Socialists.

[Admiral Piett]

Another terrible poll. The Left-Right scale is not an accurate representation of one's views without the statism-libertarian spectrum.

[Kjertesvein]

Social democrat

[eggthief]

Well I think that we all can agree that Rome's choice was a big shocker.

[Hub'ite]

No Libertarian?

[eggthief]

Well I am, but I could only pick one, center-left suited me more.

[Dr. Croccer]

Socialist. Not extreme but not a Social Democrat either.

[Barry Goldwater]

Conservative, though I can't say I'm a big fan of either the Dems or the GOP - the only reason I'd vote for the Republicans is that I'm completely out of options and they're just a bit closer to my views than the Democrats. I'll probably be voting Constitution (only 'cause I'm tired of seeing the White House controlled by 2 parties) in 2012.

[Manco]

Alright, choose which of the following you are and state which country you are from.

Socialist, Liberal, Center Left, Center Right, Conservative, Neo-Conservative

I am a socialist and I live in the U.S.

Let me guess, you're American.

Liberalism as a political theory in the vein of socialism and conservatism is not left. It's centre-right if we keep using the obsolete left/right scale.

You've also forgotten most of the political views outside of the American ones.

[MasterOfNone]

Neo-conservatives are far from right-wing and the poll merely reinforces a number of false ideas about the political spectrum. Again, the only scale with any empirical meaning is a measurement of governmental power.

Again, I'd recommend everyone read Nelson Hultberg's "The Political Sprectrum Con"
LINK: http://www.afr.org/Hultberg/080105.htm

A much more accurate poll would be:

* totalitarian (in today's terminology communists, fascists, neo-cons, socialists); the true "left" on a power scale
* welfarist (in today's terminology democrats, liberals, maybe some neo-cons); considered "centre" but actually very left (i.e. tending heavily toward the totalitarian)
* constitutional republican (constitutionalists, (non-anarchist) libertarians, classical liberals, akin to traditional conservatism in the US/UK) ; considered "right wing" today but actually the balance point where rights are fully protected without being violated by government. Totalitarians and the ignorant try to associate fascism with this position - something so totally inaccurate as to seriously call into question the motive or political intelligence of the accuser.
* anarchist; those opposed to governmental structure of any kind (sometimes totalitarian-leaning individuals falsley accuse constitutional republicans of this)

[Dr. Croccer]

Neo-conservatives are far from right-wing and the poll merely reinforces a number of false ideas about the political spectrum. Again, the only scale with any empirical meaning is a measurement of governmental power.

Again, I'd recommend everyone read Nelson Hultberg's "The Political Sprectrum Con"
LINK: http://www.afr.org/Hultberg/080105.htm

A much more accurate poll would be:

* totalitarian
* welfarist
* constitutional republican
* anarchist

Except those aren't political ideologies, they're crap attempts at categorisation of aforementioned ideologies.

[Manco]

Again, the only scale with any empirical meaning is a measurement of governmental power.

Except that your scale would completely ignore civic life, motives for authority, use of that power, economical system used, social values and mores, equates enforced freedoms with bans,... many of which can also be empirically researched by simply looking at the country's judicial system.