Political Orientation Poll

[Lias]

and Bush and Reagan and Mugabe and Pol Pot and Pinochet and Mahatir and all the other authoritarian abusers who have screwed the world over and delivered us a world full of trouble instead of a world full of understanding and compassion.

Dont particularly like Bush, Mugabe, or Pol Pot. Mahatir I'm undecided on without further looking into his career. Pinochet is the only one out of that group I can honestly say I admire.

[idleidolidyll]

Dont particularly like Bush, Mugabe, or Pol Pot. Mahatir I'm undecided on without further looking into his career. Pinochet is the only one out of that group I can honestly say I admire.

Pinochet was a right wing dictator who slaughtered thousands just for being his opposition and speaking out. He overthrew a legitimate democracy with the aid of the Yanks and abused his power by selling out his country to the Yank corporations. He was supported completely by the Yanks as was Pol Pot.

[Lias]

Pinochet was a right wing dictator who slaughtered thousands just for being his opposition and speaking out. He overthrew a legitimate democracy with the aid of the Yanks and abused his power by selling out his country to the Yank corporations. He was supported completely by the Yanks as was Pol Pot.

He exterminated all the marxists, and leftists he could get his hands on.. Even if he'd done nothing else I approve of, that alone should get the man a medal. Every dead lefty makes the world a better place.

[Wolf]

Every dead lefty makes the world a better place.

Just you wait until the Nats adopt that policy - as a Centrist you're to the Left of them...

[Lias]

The nats are far too queer to ever do anything like start hanging the lefties.
Well maybe under brash.. Key's damn near a lefty himself.

[Skyryder]

That test put me at miidle left, but all my political feeling is far right.

Maybe that is because I was bought up as a labour party supporter in the sixties and early seventies, but since then all parties have moved further left. Its at the stage now that ACT is almost as much a socialist party as labour used to be, while the modern Labour Party has gone so far left that they are following the chinese line.

And I'm in the political opposition to the left but this poll puts us both in the same grouping. I wonder if we could agree that it's a Zionist plot?

Skyryder

[SPman]

As expected


bugger, where did the pic go!

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.13

[Gibbo13p]

Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.46

[Wolf]

Just been looking on the Political Compass at the US Primaries - the positions of the loudest noises in US politics during the election race.

All bar 2 are right of centre, all but the same two are above the middle line between Fascists and Anarchists.

According to the blurb, those in the just right of centre, just above the social median are classified by the general public as "lefties" and "overly liberal".

Sad indictment for their nation that their most moderate politicians are merely marginally less right-wing control-freaks than the rest.

Small wonder the place is practically a dictatorship regardless of the party in power - best they manage is Middle Centrist, tending to Authoritarian Right, otherwise it's Mussoliniville under George Bush and his clones.

So "Left and Right" are very subjective - which might explain oldrider's feelings that our parties are all "lefties" despite how they stack up internationally.

In the USA, "only marginally right wing" is "Left"; "only a little bit of a control freak" is "Liberal".

Ol' GW of course will be wanting another fascist Republican like himself to get in and continue raping the World - wouldn't want any of those namby-pamby leftist Democrats getting in and stopping the War On Everybody(tm), would we?

Fuck sake don't let "the Bish" get in power here - he'd be even further up a US Republican president's arse than the National Party.

[idleidolidyll]

That test put me at miidle left, but all my political feeling is far right.

Maybe that is because I was bought up as a labour party supporter in the sixties and early seventies, but since then all parties have moved further left. Its at the stage now that ACT is almost as much a socialist party as labour used to be, while the modern Labour Party has gone so far left that they are following the chinese line.

ridiculous!

in fact most political parties have moved to the RIGHT and even Labour is slightly right of centre now while National is practically fascist.

The same has happened in Britain and of course the USA. Look at the website, there's a good overview and a comparison of the Brits decades ago with where their parties are now. The same has happened here.

[avgas]

my sig sums up where i sit politically i figure.

[Wolf]

ridiculous!

in fact most political parties have moved to the RIGHT and even Labour is slightly right of centre now while National is practically fascist.

The same has happened in Britain and of course the USA. Look at the website, there's a good overview and a comparison of the Brits decades ago with where their parties are now. The same has happened here.

The plotting of Brit parties is a real eye-opener - the way Labour/New Labour has diagonalled up from Liberal left to Authoritarian Right and the latest results put them more extreme than the Conservatives.


Our own Labour Party is following the same trend based on their 2005 position and their more Nanny-state ideals since that was plotted.

[idleidolidyll]

The plotting of Brit parties is a real eye-opener - the way Labour/New Labour has diagonalled up from Liberal left to Authoritarian Right and the latest results put them more extreme than the Conservatives.


Our own Labour Party is following the same trend based on their 2005 position and their more Nanny-state ideals since that was plotted.

Yes, although not as fast, Labour HAS moved to the right and toward authoritarianism. That said, they remain the only real centrist party in the country.
It started with Roger Douglas, the lefty who wasn't. The damage he did has never been undone and the Labour party has only retrench3ed a little from those sad years. Their greatest achievement in recent years was dumping the odious Employment Contracts Act imposed by National and replacing it with the ERA. The latter is also flawed but at least doesn't hand NZ's workforce over lock stock and barrel to free market greed the way it's predecessor did.

[Robert Taylor]

He exterminated all the marxists, and leftists he could get his hands on.. Even if he'd done nothing else I approve of, that alone should get the man a medal. Every dead lefty makes the world a better place.

Careful, you will suffer a vile outburst from the lefty bookwriters with too much idle time. Had I some time I would write a very large epistle justifying ''compassionate conservatism'' But it is flogging a dead horse in the face of those whose political persuasion is ''the only way'' That, is not a cop out, I just dont have the time and frankly the extended diatribes from the one ''whose flag is brightest red'' makes one reach.

And theyve got the temerity to say that the right wing clique have the loudest mouths.

[Lias]

ridiculous!

in fact most political parties have moved to the RIGHT and even Labour is slightly right of centre now while National is practically fascist.

Cripes.. National are so lefty under Key they mayswell merge with the green and call themselves the National Treehuggers. Not to mention facist/nazi parties dont generally have non white members and a jewish leader lol.

NZ has had a few niche facist parties registered over the years, but none of them have ever gotten more than a few thousand votes, a fact you should be greatful for because if a real facist party was voted into power you can bet your arse that when you can sit here and mouth off about rightwing government, you'd get a free ride to the gas chamber.