Political Standings

Allsides-

Allsides was a little too obvious with how they rated me. They made me place myself on a spectrum of left to right on large issues rather than give me issues or scenarios. It didn’t make me think or prompt me to question my own beliefs. I slid everything to left of center and moved on. Unsurprisingly, I got left leaning. It confirmed what I thought, and I moved on to the next quiz.

8values-

8values was set up entirely different. Some questions were obvious in how they would place you on the political spectrum, but most of the questions were thought provoking. They asked questions that were just slightly too general, such as legalizing drug use. Most people talk about marijuana or psychedelics at most, but this quiz makes you think big picture. This quiz also had a libertarian/authoritarian scale in one of its “values” which I found interesting. I was placed as a libertarian socialist. I had never really tried to find a label for myself outside of Democratic or Republican and sometimes the ol’ “feminist lib” that gets thrown around. I had never considered the ideals of socialisms outside of the historical incidences. I did some research, and on paper I agree with quite a bit of the ideals. I don’t know what they would look like in practice, but some of the questions in the quiz gave me an idea of some of the scenarios.

Political Compass-

This quiz was similar to 8values in that it had more spectrums that it placed you on, but it really wasn’t sneaky with the questions. If you ask me if I think same sex marriage is immoral and I answer with “strongly disagree”, I wonder where it’s going to place me? I also got a strong socialist libertarian on this quiz. The questions didn’t make me think too much, but it was the second time I had seem the phrase “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, so it prompted me to research it. It was indeed a socialist ideal straight from Marx’s mouth.

All in all, this confirmed that I do strongly disagree what the right stands for and I am politically left. I did learn that I may side with socialists on a number of issues and not even know it.