(August 21, 2014 at 3:48 pm)Blackout Wrote: The Liberals V Conservatives reference is not used in europe, since there are more than 2 parties in most countries. It's mostly 'left wingers' vs 'right wingers', and in any of those sides there are several parties. For instance, left wing parties are usually a center left (AKA socialist party, even though they are not pure socialists so the label is incorrect), a more lefty and a far left (communist party), and between the same side there are arguments and divergences, socialists dislike commies because they take it to the extreme, commies dislike socialists (center left) because they seem them as 'communists without balls'. In the right there's usually a center right (more or less the same as the democratic party of the USA), social democrats and stuff, and then a people's party, usually the conservatives (not only Christian democrats as we call them here, but also right wing conservatives who are not religious). In some countries there are far right parties, the nationalist ones, everyone knows they have a fascist agenda. Unlike the US conservative party they want to increase government invervention to leave everything submitted to the nation (where did we hear that in history books?)
I think that what you're missing here is that the results are not intended to score you relative to any area's political systems, but rather to the range of possible answers. I think it's pretty clear to everyone that the political mean in Europe is left of center (relative to the chart) and the US is right of center (also relative to the chart).
