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The Moral Politics quiz is sort of like the Political Compass test, except that it focuses on more meaningful questions--and gave me what feels like a much more useful, accurate answer. Try it out! Everything is neatly hyperlinked, so you can figure out what all of the different categories mean and so forth after taking the quiz. My results below. Please share your own results in the Comments field!

Your Score

Your scored -5 on the Moral Order axis and 3 on the Moral Rules axis.

Matches

The following items best match your score:

1. System: Socialism
2. Variation: Moral Socialism
3. Ideologies: Social Democratism, Activism
4. US Parties: No match.
5. Presidents: Jimmy Carter (86.02%)
6. 2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (90.12%), John Kerry (76.20%), George W. Bush (43.40%)

Statistics

Of the 176340 people who took the test:

1. 0.7% had the same score as you.
2. 10.4% were above you on the chart.
3. 85.1% were below you on the chart.
4. 83.6% were to your right on the chart.
5. 11.6% were to your left on the chart.

Previous Comments

ID

105673

Comment

MY Score Your scored 1 on the Moral Order axis and 0.5 on the Moral Rules axis. Matches The following items best match your score: System: Authoritarianism Variation: Moderate Authoritarianism Ideologies: Social Republicanism US Parties: Democratic Party Presidents: Gerald Ford (83.91%) 2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (79.15%), George W. Bush (69.94%), Ralph Nader (68.99%) Statistics Of the 176377 people who took the test: 0.8% had the same score as you. 34.7% were above you on the chart. 53.5% were below you on the chart. 22.6% were to your right on the chart. 71.7% were to your left on the chart.

Author

Rex

Date

2006-04-07T13:47:48-06:00

ID

105674

Comment

Rockin', Rex. Thanks for doing this. I wish they'd found a word other than "Authoritarianism," because I don't think that's a fair assessment of conservative philosophy. Edmund Burke was no authoritarian. Some conservatives are authoritarians, but then so are some of my fellow social liberals. And a downright frightening number of socialists. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-04-07T14:03:51-06:00

ID

105675

Comment

Your Score Your scored -2.5 on the Moral Order axis and 2.5 on the Moral Rules axis. Matches The following items best match your score: System: Socialism Variation: Moderate Socialism Ideologies: Social Democratism US Parties: No match. Presidents: Jimmy Carter (87.12%) 2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (83.17%), John Kerry (79.99%), George W. Bush (53.12%) Statistics Of the 176420 people who took the test: 3.3% had the same score as you. 14.9% were above you on the chart. 72.4% were below you on the chart. 47.7% were to your right on the chart. 31% were to your left on the chart.

Author

Lori G

Date

2006-04-07T16:23:00-06:00

ID

105676

Comment

Your scored 0.5 on the Moral Order axis and -3.5 on the Moral Rules axis. Not too badly worded, overall. I've seen worse. :)

Author

Ironghost

Date

2006-04-11T14:04:21-06:00

ID

105677

Comment

Am I the only one who found this test profoundly confusing? Not only did I mark about a third of the questions as confusing; I also couldn't understand what the results actually meant. I found the terms "moral order" and "moral rules" uninformative. I forgot to save my results so I could share them with y'all, but we can say that at least in graphical terms, I was above and to the right of Tom. Apparently I should really be a Buddhist (that doesn't surprise me much, except that I'd have mucho problems with the homophobia...). Best, Tim

Author

Tim Kynerd

Date

2006-04-12T19:51:48-06:00

ID

105678

Comment

My Score: Your scored -4.5 on the Moral Order axis and 1 on the Moral Rules axis. Matches: The following items best match your score: System: Socialism Variation: Moral Socialism Ideologies: Social Democratism US Parties: Democratic Party Presidents: Jimmy Carter (95.06%) 2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (93.37%), John Kerry (85.18%), George W. Bush (50.34%) Statistics Of the 181101 people who took the test: 1% had the same score as you. 27.7% were above you on the chart. 65.1% were below you on the chart. 77% were to your right on the chart. 16.3% were to your left on the chart. That puts me closer to Anarchism (Libertarian Socialism) than I thought - but still falling well short of it I am dying to put a clever quip , but I find it so likely to be misinterpreted that it may likely harm someone's reputation :P

Author

Philip

Date

2006-04-21T17:34:56-06:00

ID

105679

Comment

Your Score Your scored -6 on the Moral Order axis and 2 on the Moral Rules axis. Matches The following items best match your score: System: Socialism Variation: Moral Socialism Ideologies: Activism US Parties: Green Party Presidents: Jimmy Carter (87.50%) 2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (95.58%), John Kerry (77.90%), George W. Bush (42.38%) Statistics Of the 181880 people who took the test: 2.7% had the same score as you. 15.1% were above you on the chart. 72.2% were below you on the chart. 88.5% were to your right on the chart. 2.1% were to your left on the chart.

Author

jan2006

Date

2006-04-24T12:57:30-06:00

ID

105680

Comment

Your Score Your scored -2.5 on the Moral Order axis and 3 on the Moral Rules axis. Matches The following items best match your score: System: Socialism Variation: Moderate Socialism Ideologies: Social Democratism US Parties: No match. Presidents: Jimmy Carter (85.18%) 2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (82.18%), John Kerry (77.79%), George W. Bush (51.54%) Statistics Of the 181883 people who took the test: 0.5% had the same score as you. 10.5% were above you on the chart. 84.9% were below you on the chart. 47.8% were to your right on the chart. 30.9% were to your left on the chart. this is the long test version: the first one was the short test version

Author

jan2006

Date

2006-04-24T13:10:52-06:00

ID

105681

Comment

ok - I had to do this - Your Score Your scored 0 on the Moral Order axis and -4.5 on the Moral Rules axis. Matches The following items best match your score: 1. System: Conservatism, Liberalism 2. Variation: Economic Conservatism, Economic Liberalism 3. Ideologies: Capital Republicanism, Capital Democratism 4. US Parties: Republican Party, Democratic Party 5. Presidents: Gerald Ford (93.37%) 6. 2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (82.74%), George W. Bush (77.79%), Ralph Nader (64.03%) Statistics Of the 181904 people who took the test: 1. 1% had the same score as you. 2. 74.4% were above you on the chart. 3. 20.7% were below you on the chart. 4. 28.4% were to your right on the chart. 5. 60% were to your left on the chart. I agree a number of the questions were very ambiguous.

Author

Fielding

Date

2006-04-24T14:25:21-06:00

ID

105682

Comment

Does anyone else feel like this test confuses political and economic systems? For instance, many folks above are marked as "socialist" or leaning socialist in their scores. But "socialism," in a pure form, is an economic system whereby the public (i.e. the goverment) owns land and the means of production and is responsible for deciding how to distribute wealth among it citizens. I guess I don't quite get the matrix -- it's Socialism (an economic system), Authoritarianism (a political system), Conservatism (a political/philosophical/ideological bent) and Liberalism (ditto). Now, it's clear from the definitions that at least the Liberalism definition skews a little Euro-centric (something closer to what we'd call Libertarianism here, perhaps), so maybe the dialog in Europe includes Socialism as something more than an economic system. But its their definitions, in part, that seem to muddy the effectiveness of the matrix. (And I'm *all about* political matrices. :-)

Author

Todd Stauffer

Date

2006-04-24T17:23:08-06:00

ID

105683

Comment

First, thanks to everybody for posting their scores. This rocks. ;o) Second, Todd: Definitely a flawed test, and it is Euro-centric rather than America-centric. Political terminology can be messy. You know what you call the conservative, pro-Bush, anti-gay party in Australlia? The Liberal Party. So when you hear an Australian talk about "those damned Liberals," she probably means right-wingers. In Europe, a social liberal is someone who is halfway between a U.S. liberal and a socialist. A Canadian, in other words--or maybe Tom Head. In Europe, both Bush and Kerry would both be regarded as very fiscally conservative but fairly liberal on immigration issues. The British press presents them as being very different in terms of foreign policy and in terms of social issues, but almost indistinguishable in most other respects. In most of the world, in cases where the superior parliamentary system is not in place, the conflict is between the Labour Party (whether it's called by that name or not) and whatever the opposition party happens to be. In Britain, it's the Tories. In Australia, it's the Liberals. Personally (and I think we've discussed our agreement on this before), I'd be much happier if there were five or six parties and a prime minister rather than a president so that candidates can afford to represent less milquetoast beliefs but leadership relies on a coalition government. The two-party system doesn't make coalition governing impossible--witness the diversity of a party that includes both Rudy Giuliani and Tom Coburn, or the diversity of a party that includes both Dennis Kucinich and Ronnie Musgrove--but it makes it less honest by forcing national candidates to be all things to all people within their party. Cheers, TH

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-04-24T17:39:41-06:00

ID

105684

Comment

(Irony: I just talked about party diversity, and yet all four of the names that came to mind were those of white males. Maybe our political system isn't all that diverse after all...)

Author

Tom Head

Date

2006-04-24T17:40:28-06:00

ID

105685

Comment

Glad Todd pointed that out. It frustrates me no end when people are ignorant enough to call someone a "socialist" (or, egad, a "communist") who seem to have no clue what either word means. Of course, this has gone on for years in this state. Remember when supporting civil rights meant one was a "communist"? What morons.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2006-04-24T17:59:16-06:00

ID

105686

Comment

Want to see some real moral confusion? Take both the long and the short version of the test and compare scores. Mine jumped to a mirror opposite. Short test sucks.

Author

Rex

Date

2006-04-25T09:37:00-06:00

ID

105687

Comment

Mine didn't change that much.

Author

jan2006

Date

2006-04-25T09:40:39-06:00

ID

105688

Comment

I know I'm late with this, but here's my results. Your Score Your scored -6 on the Moral Order axis and 3.5 on the Moral Rules axis. Matches The following items best match your score: System: Socialism Variation: Moral Socialism Ideologies: Activism US Parties: No match. Presidents: Jimmy Carter (82.18%) 2004 Election Candidates: Ralph Nader (88.95%), John Kerry (72.31%), George W. Bush (38.56%)

Author

Christine

Date

2006-05-03T16:22:17-06:00

ID

105689

Comment

From Ironghost: Your scored 0.5 on the Moral Order axis and -3.5 on the Moral Rules axis. Mine: Your scored -5 on the Moral Order axis and 2.5 on the Moral Rules axis. And we're married! :)

Author

Lady Havoc

Date

2006-05-06T19:35:45-06:00