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What's to the right of fascist?
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RE: What's to the right of fascist?
I've taken the Political Compass test every couple of years-- and every year I veer further down the lower left hand corner.

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But I thought Obama was a fascist-commie-muslim-socialist-atheist-unamerican-terrorist!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!

Quote:When examining the chart it's important to note that although most of the candidates seem quite different, in substance they occupy a relatively restricted area within the universal political spectrum. Democracies with a system of proportional representation give expression to a wider range of political views. While Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader are depicted on the extreme left in an American context, they would simply be mainstream social democrats within the wider political landscape of Europe. Similarly, Obama is popularly perceived as a leftist in the United States while elsewhere in the west his record is that of a moderate conservative. For example, in the case of the death penalty he is not an uncompromising abolitionist, while mainstream conservatives in all other western democracies are deeply opposed to capital punishment. The Democratic party's presidential candidate also reneged on his commitment to oppose the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He sided with the ultra conservative bloc in the Supreme Court against the Washington DC handgun ban and for capital punishment in child rape cases. He supports President Bush's faith-based initiatives and is reported in Fortune to have said that NAFTA isn't so bad. Despite all this, some angry emailers tell us that Obama is a dangerous socialist who belongs on the extreme left of our chart. In an apparently close race, genuine leftists McKinney and Nader may attract sufficient votes from Obama to deliver McCain to the Oval Office.

from this page on Political Compass on the 2008 US Presidential Election.
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” ~ E.M. Cioran
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What's to the right of fascist? - by DeistPaladin - September 15, 2010 at 1:15 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by downbeatplumb - September 15, 2010 at 1:28 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Minimalist - September 15, 2010 at 1:34 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 15, 2010 at 1:59 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Existentialist - September 15, 2010 at 6:36 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by downbeatplumb - September 15, 2010 at 2:02 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 15, 2010 at 2:19 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by theVOID - September 15, 2010 at 6:43 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by tackattack - September 15, 2010 at 2:04 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by AtheistPhil - September 15, 2010 at 2:08 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by DeistPaladin - September 15, 2010 at 3:31 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Skipper - September 15, 2010 at 2:31 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by krazedkat - September 16, 2010 at 6:32 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by padraic - September 16, 2010 at 6:41 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Entropist - September 16, 2010 at 6:59 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 16, 2010 at 7:16 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by krazedkat - September 16, 2010 at 7:22 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 16, 2010 at 7:41 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Minimalist - September 16, 2010 at 7:23 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Ashendant - September 16, 2010 at 7:46 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by theVOID - September 16, 2010 at 8:45 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Ashendant - September 16, 2010 at 8:53 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by chasm - September 16, 2010 at 8:56 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by theVOID - September 16, 2010 at 9:24 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by krazedkat - September 16, 2010 at 8:05 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Ashendant - September 16, 2010 at 8:38 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by theVOID - September 16, 2010 at 8:14 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by krazedkat - September 16, 2010 at 8:53 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 16, 2010 at 8:57 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by krazedkat - September 16, 2010 at 10:17 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 17, 2010 at 5:29 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by lrh9 - September 17, 2010 at 5:57 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 16, 2010 at 10:12 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by lrh9 - September 17, 2010 at 1:57 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Edwardo Piet - September 17, 2010 at 3:17 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by TheDarkestOfAngels - September 17, 2010 at 3:25 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Entropist - September 17, 2010 at 8:32 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by lrh9 - September 17, 2010 at 4:08 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 17, 2010 at 6:30 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Ashendant - September 17, 2010 at 7:32 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by lrh9 - September 17, 2010 at 7:42 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 17, 2010 at 8:02 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Ashendant - September 17, 2010 at 8:17 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 17, 2010 at 8:25 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by lrh9 - September 17, 2010 at 8:14 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 17, 2010 at 8:19 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by lrh9 - September 17, 2010 at 8:34 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Entropist - September 17, 2010 at 8:36 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by lrh9 - September 17, 2010 at 8:46 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Entropist - September 17, 2010 at 9:01 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by DeistPaladin - September 17, 2010 at 1:11 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by theVOID - September 17, 2010 at 9:07 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Paul the Human - September 17, 2010 at 1:24 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by DeistPaladin - September 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by TheDarkestOfAngels - September 17, 2010 at 2:07 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Tiberius - September 17, 2010 at 3:34 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by AtheistPhil - September 17, 2010 at 3:53 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by tackattack - September 17, 2010 at 2:45 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by krazedkat - September 17, 2010 at 8:30 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Zen Badger - September 18, 2010 at 2:00 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Ashendant - September 18, 2010 at 6:47 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by DeistPaladin - September 18, 2010 at 1:27 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by krazedkat - September 19, 2010 at 12:13 am
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Existentialist - September 25, 2010 at 4:54 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by The Omnissiunt One - September 25, 2010 at 6:07 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Existentialist - September 25, 2010 at 7:15 pm
RE: What's to the right of fascist? - by Jaysyn - September 26, 2010 at 11:22 am

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