r/PoliticalCompass

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Dogs are not left wing and I’m tired or people saying they are.

They share literally NOTHING, if you even touch their food they will bite you, they have a natural hierarchy that the oldest is superior unless the man is stronger etc etc. None of these are left wing.

I have seen 2 posts in a row claiming their dog is left wing and it’s obviously not true. I am not anti dog, they’re amazing, they’re loving and they’ll always do what their OWNER says. I grew up with dogs and have been surrounded by them and I live in one of the most dog friendly countries in the world. I will not stand for dog injustice.

The real question is if they are auth or lib

u/TJ_DOG_likes_britons — 2 days ago

I took the political compass/8 values tests

Can someone say what would be my ideology? 8values says that I'm a social liberal but I'm not sure

u/AGabriel2010 — 2 days ago

Any ideas/help with my bingo will be appreciated

Ive been working on a bingo for a couple of days because I thought it would be fun, do you guys have any ideas or things I could change? Here's where im at right now. Im just looking for some inspiration

u/Worried_Stage4831 — 2 days ago

My political misadventure

First things first, I'm from Eastern Europe so my english can be a little cooked. I'm 21 now and started my political journey at 14. Ages not 100% correct because I don't remember all stuff but it doesn't matter. Let's get start:

14-17 y.o. – communism. Not a very surprising ideology for a post-soviet teenager. At first it was just a soviet nostalgia but later I even read Marx's Kapital. Back then I was absolutely sure that all this capitalist-liberal-democratic stuff is too complicated and if we just take everything and devide it equally we will build a better world (of course after k1lling every bourgeois, oppositioner and in general everyone who we don't like).

17-18 y.o. – finally the understanding that ruthless dictatorship is bad reached my small brain, so I embraced democratic socialism. That year I discovered british "old labour" under sir Attlee and it was exactly what I was searching for: everyone is equal and happy.

18 y.o. – I got to the part of british history where the "old labour" led to big troubles in economy, so I rejected it and was searching for something new. This new was paternalistic conservatism (a.k.a. bismarkism in Germany and one nation toryism in the UK). It was stable and pro-labour like socialism but less dogmatic.

18 y.o. – I continued to move away from socialism, so I moved from one nation tory to high tory (a.k.a. traditionalists). Again, it matched my need for "stability" but also my newly knowledge in economics. It also coincided the moment I was interested in religion.

19 y.o. – I finally gave up on the idea of "iron fist" that was in my brain since the communist phase and moved down to liberal conservatism and people like Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller. I would say, it was the moment when I finally got rid of all my childhood ideas and changed my view on this world.

19 y.o. – I discovered right wing libertarianism and moved even further down. Now my idols were Calvin Coolidge and Bush Sr. I also tried to discover ancap but it was so unlogical that I quickly gave up.

20 y.o. – I started to learn economics and understood problems of the uncontrollable privatization (hello Great depression and 2007 recession). So I stepped back a little bit to what can be called a "soft" or "progressive" libertarianism.

21 y.o. – because of some external events I finally gave up on the idea of hierarchy itself and embraced left wing market anarchism (a.k.a. anarcho-individualism). Well, philosophically. I understand that it won't work in the nearest future but it is my vision of perfect society: no central government, free market and self-governance for state institutions like universities, fire departments and other.

Hope you didn't get bored reading all this mess.

u/Vladlen_Dark — 3 days ago