Sorry lol, and absolutely no shade. I can say I’m obviously generally somewhere in the bottom left quadrant (as is pretty much everyone I follow on here). But I’d like to make the point that this compass does a couple of unfortunate things:
1. Flattens what may be someone’s wide-ranging spectrum of principles/values. This is an issue with these kinds of things when surveying large populations to get an average, but in this case it’s also sticky when an individual has values that don’t comfortably conform to the binaries presented.
2. Accepts and presents the deeply-ingrained false binaries of left v. right and libertarian v. authoritarian as political fact.
3. Encourages, overtly or otherwise, people to define their political views oppositonally. Maybe I’ll get into this in a big rec, but this is the core problem with all of our systems!
Variations of this can be helpful though – ones that are designed to help you figure out how you align with candidates/parties in a specific election, for example. This works a bit better in countries with multi-party systems though, so uh…
Anyway, please carry on as you were!
