The fact that political compass tests always produce this pattern is proof that the compass is a meme. The libertarian-right and authoritarian-left are not real quadrants with any significant real-world political actors or achievements or representation.
Which side are you on? :
Elijah Cox
Samuel Torres
Luke Jones
Agreed but imo they're still fun to do every once in a while. And while they tend to not be accurate at all in some cases they give you a very general idea of where you're standing, to help you orientate yourself a bit.
I think a political compass test based solely on what socialist tendency you are, if done well, would be more interesting.
Landon Reed
I think they're toxic, actually, because they fool leftists into thinking they're libertarian. It manufactures anarkiddies because it gives them a false understanding of where they stand in the first place. It's like if you were trying to navigate with a irl compass, but the needle only ever points East or West.
Michael Lopez
Jackson Sullivan
IIRC the original political compass test was developed by American libertarians (liberals) which is why it had a biased towards that side.
Ethan Carter
what the fuck brb killing myself
Aiden Gutierrez
You're supposed to tell other "democratic forces" and parliamentarism to fuck off if you want to be above Left SR's.
John Miller
Seems to be what everyone else is getting these days.
William Cook
But that would imply that it would lean to the right-libertarian side, and people tend towards being left libertarian.
I remember seeing it as some kind of "social freedom" and "economic freedom" when I was at a public college with right-libertarians at the top and everyone picked the "far left" with high social freedom and very low economic freedom.