What is your political alignment?
Traditionally this has been a position of Left and Right.
There is a political compass test to show where you fall within a political 2-dimensional graph from answering a series of questions, that I'm sure most of y'all have taken at some point, to plot your "position" on this graph with the Y-axis between Libertarian and Authoritarian and the X-axis of Left and Right, politically. There is also political values test like 9axes and 8values with even more questions than the political compass test, to place you on supposedly diametrically opposed values, e.g. Secular vs Religious. You can find a list of 9 such demarcations from 9axes.github.io.
The problem, IMO, with such demarcations is that they don't accurately account for someone's values - not even for binary choices - because there will always be overlap and special cases and exceptions, with more situations that are introduced and hypotheticals imagined. Political values aren't easily put into a sliding line between 2 values when talking about political convictions, and most notably, it isn't all that obvious that any 2 values are even opposites. This problem is just compounded further, the more political values you account for, for which that aren't even a question of a binary choice.
I speculate that these demarcate distinctions are a result of rival political factions, where the differences on their own became associated with these left and right political seats. Today those distinctions are arbitrary, IMO. You can combine any number of different values any way you like, that you can't even represent accurately on any dimensional graph or slider; case in point the ridiculous Nazbol political ideology.
At the end of the day the stuff a political party accomplished is a question of how (what methodology they used) and what they did. Now, if a ruling political party doesn't accurately represent the will of the people living in that country, what is the fucking point? I guess I'd like a more pragmatic approach and more coherent political view of government. One that has a clear policy, how to enact that policy and stated goals they wish to achieve from that policy. Putting people in diametrically opposed camps is divisionary, when we're all in the same boat.
Traditionally this has been a position of Left and Right.
There is a political compass test to show where you fall within a political 2-dimensional graph from answering a series of questions, that I'm sure most of y'all have taken at some point, to plot your "position" on this graph with the Y-axis between Libertarian and Authoritarian and the X-axis of Left and Right, politically. There is also political values test like 9axes and 8values with even more questions than the political compass test, to place you on supposedly diametrically opposed values, e.g. Secular vs Religious. You can find a list of 9 such demarcations from 9axes.github.io.
The problem, IMO, with such demarcations is that they don't accurately account for someone's values - not even for binary choices - because there will always be overlap and special cases and exceptions, with more situations that are introduced and hypotheticals imagined. Political values aren't easily put into a sliding line between 2 values when talking about political convictions, and most notably, it isn't all that obvious that any 2 values are even opposites. This problem is just compounded further, the more political values you account for, for which that aren't even a question of a binary choice.
I speculate that these demarcate distinctions are a result of rival political factions, where the differences on their own became associated with these left and right political seats. Today those distinctions are arbitrary, IMO. You can combine any number of different values any way you like, that you can't even represent accurately on any dimensional graph or slider; case in point the ridiculous Nazbol political ideology.
At the end of the day the stuff a political party accomplished is a question of how (what methodology they used) and what they did. Now, if a ruling political party doesn't accurately represent the will of the people living in that country, what is the fucking point? I guess I'd like a more pragmatic approach and more coherent political view of government. One that has a clear policy, how to enact that policy and stated goals they wish to achieve from that policy. Putting people in diametrically opposed camps is divisionary, when we're all in the same boat.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
