My political compass
Nov. 15th, 2004 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvarMy political compass is about 60-70% libertarian left.
I don't put TOO much faith in the test because it sometimes maddeningly conflates two ideas that are, to my mind, distinct. For example: A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system. I believe that it does avoid many arguments that would otherwise slow down the system, but I don't believe that this increased efficiency is at all worth the trade-off.
Still, I think its results, at least for me, are reasonably accurate. I've described myself as a libertarian socialist; I think rich drug dealers should be taxed proportionally higher and regulated (with all other pharmaceuticals) to ensure public safety, and that we should aim to provide more social services (and therefore pay more in taxes) than we do now.
I don't put TOO much faith in the test because it sometimes maddeningly conflates two ideas that are, to my mind, distinct. For example: A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system. I believe that it does avoid many arguments that would otherwise slow down the system, but I don't believe that this increased efficiency is at all worth the trade-off.
Still, I think its results, at least for me, are reasonably accurate. I've described myself as a libertarian socialist; I think rich drug dealers should be taxed proportionally higher and regulated (with all other pharmaceuticals) to ensure public safety, and that we should aim to provide more social services (and therefore pay more in taxes) than we do now.
