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CCIP · 01-28-15, 06:42 PM

I was curious less about my results (I already knew them from before and have looked way deeper than this into figuring out where I stand), and more about how these changed about me over the last 9 years, since graduating from college and having more "real life" thrown at me and whatnot. There's always this thought that people become more conservative as they age.

Nope

Apparently all that's happened to me over the last few years is that I've fallen about half the way down the libertarian spectrum

And ditto on Penguin's comment - in general, this is a very US-centric measurement. There is one serious problem with this, because relative to much of the rest of the world (at least Western world), mainstream US politics are shifted way to the right. The mainstream Conservative parties in most places, from Europe to Canada and Australia to South America, would be at best in the center of this spectrum (or slightly left), at least with the questions asked the way they are.

As for my own shift towards supposed libetarian socialism, I'd mostly explain it by way of my experience with politics in Canada, where more than anything I've become disillusioned with the lack of credibility on the left, where the party platforms are either short-sighted and poorly-managed (i.e. NDP) or just ideologically impaired of any good judgment (i.e. Green and all the non-represented parties on the left).

01-28-15, 06:42 PM	#18
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I was curious less about my results (I already knew them from before and have looked way deeper than this into figuring out where I stand), and more about how these changed about me over the last 9 years, since graduating from college and having more "real life" thrown at me and whatnot. There's always this thought that people become more conservative as they age. Nope Apparently all that's happened to me over the last few years is that I've fallen about half the way down the libertarian spectrum And ditto on Penguin's comment - in general, this is a very US-centric measurement. There is one serious problem with this, because relative to much of the rest of the world (at least Western world), mainstream US politics are shifted way to the right. The mainstream Conservative parties in most places, from Europe to Canada and Australia to South America, would be at best in the center of this spectrum (or slightly left), at least with the questions asked the way they are. As for my own shift towards supposed libetarian socialism, I'd mostly explain it by way of my experience with politics in Canada, where more than anything I've become disillusioned with the lack of credibility on the left, where the party platforms are either short-sighted and poorly-managed (i.e. NDP) or just ideologically impaired of any good judgment (i.e. Green and all the non-represented parties on the left). __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) Last edited by CCIP; 01-28-15 at 06:53 PM.