The Political compass - where do you fall?

[tomba]

An apology:

I lose my job at the end of March. I'm in a city hit harder than most by public sector cuts so I need to move to wherever I can find work. I've been looking since September. I'm furthered hampered by having a house no-one wants to buy. In a little under six months, I've had just four serious inquiries. I took out my fears, frustrations and deep-seated anger on a whole nation. Not very clever. But there you are.

 

[gb2000ie]

An apology:

I lose my job at the end of March. I'm in a city hit harder than most by public sector cuts so I need to move to wherever I can find work. I've been looking since September. I'm furthered hampered by having a house no-one wants to buy. In a little under six months, I've had just four serious inquiries. I took out my fears, frustrations and deep-seated anger on a whole nation. Not very clever. But there you are.

That suck man

I'm just across the water from you in Ireland, and I also work in the public service. We're looking at a 10% cut in numbers over the next few years, so I fear for my job every day too.

Anyhow, thanks for posting this apology - it takes courage and shows character.

The reason I went in on calling any particular quadrant or group 'sad' is that the point of this thread was seeing where people stand without intimidation. I want people to be honest, and not be scared off posting their honest results for fear of insult - I hope you understand, and if I mis-judged things and was unreasonably harsh then I apologise too.

B.

 

[ritsuka]

Obama frightens me less maybe because he appears to be less of a warmonger and less in thrall to the money machine. You think that by not mentioning him and how much less scary he is to the world in comparison to Bush and Palin I'm right-wing?

He only appears that way because of the way the international mainstream media presents him. In reality, Obama ordered a massive troop surge in Afganistan, committing more civlian-killing drone strikes in his first year in office than Bush did during his entire presidency, expanded the war on terror into Yemen, his administration is arguing to stay in Iraq past the 2011 deadline, and has recently upheld both indefinite detention at Guantanamo and the "right" to kill US citizens abroad without trial all the while he expands and expands the pentagon budget, both officially and unofficially through war spending. On the economic side, he's given top appointments in his administration to wall street ceo's, he forfeited real healthcare in favor or protecting private profits, and his winning campaign was the most expensive presidential bid in american history. So, the pro-Obama movement is also a right wing one, and we need something much greater than a shallow surface change that the mainstream democratic party (beholden to the same interests as the republican party) represents. I pick out your comment because I encountered many internationals online back in 2008 who wanted to pressure me to vote for Obama's pro-war, corporate campaign just because he wasn't Bush. Putting a different face on the same policies isn't enough, and hasn't really helped us. The real dynamism for "change" that we have right now is in the uprising in Wisconsin, not the electoral system.

 

[taurus2904]

Group Graph - update 27 February 2011

I don't know if I mentioned this elsewhere, but I work in accounting/finance/tax and have - in some capacity - for almost 30 years. We beancounters like things nice and orderly, with periodic updates. You could also read that as: somewhat obsessive-compulsive with anal-retentive tendencies. Whatever.

Here is an updated graph of all responses, so far. It gets a little difficult to read individual names, but the plot points show clearly. Since I've neither been tasked with analysis nor do I wish to be - you can draw your own conclusions and/or discuss the results amongst yourselves.