Political tests, lousy and otherwise - 3 comments

I've seen so many of these "You are 4% Capitalist, 96% Socialist" things flick past, I thought I'd finally have a go. To be honest it's hardly serious political analysis: only in perhaps half of the cases would I really want to commit to a simple yes/no.

"You Are 24% Capitalist, 76% Socialist" was the verdict, but it could have gone either way.

Clicking the back button, checking "The government is under no obligation to provide for the poor" and submitting again only cut my Socialist rating to a still rosy 74%, which should be enough to see the poll sealed in concrete.

I thought this politics test was more interesting. I even collected B4L bloggers' scores and plotted them. Maybe if you joined since 5th February (which must be a hundred of you at least) you fancy having a go at that. If so, stick "Politics test" in your post title and I'll find it using our search box on the front page (that nobody uses...).

Paulie has also posted about political orientation, linking to a new type of political test - or rather, a new survey that may allow us to better see the relationships between political scales ("internationally interventionist ... isolationist", "tough ... tender", "liberal ... conservative", etc.) in these unpredictable times of ours, and perhaps (at least) shake up some of our assumptions about what constitutes "left" and "right" these days.