{"id":2453,"date":"2020-07-04T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2021-11-30T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:41:04","slug":"political-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/04\/political-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn the Wikipedia article, \nPoltical Spectrum<\/a>, there are described different ways of placing a person’s political orientation.<\/p>\n

\nAn early one was presented by the psychologist Hans Eysenck\n“Chapter 7: Politics and Personality<\/a>,” in Sense and Nonsense in Psychology<\/i> (1957). <\/p> \n

\nI found a quiz on the internet — allegedly based on Eysenck’s work — which can be taken by anyone to see where they are placed on his scale. \nHere<\/a> is the quiz, and below is my own result after taking the quiz:\n\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThere is also a similar chart, called the Nolan chart, which looks like this:\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMy own approach to political charts is more limited.\nSince I reject all non-democratic forms of government, that leaves me with two questions:<\/p>\n

\n1. Are you in favor of giving each person a right to free subsistence land? Yes No<\/p>\n

\n2. Are you in favor of micro-democracy? Yes No\n<\/p>

\n\nI also associate macro-democracy with a centralized government, there are thus four possible alternatives.<\/p>

Andrew Chrucky’s Politico-Economic Democratic Chart<\/h1><\/center>\n\n\n\n
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In the Wikipedia article, Poltical Spectrum, there are described different ways of placing a person’s political orientation. An early one was presented by the psychologist Hans Eysenck “Chapter 7: Politics and Personality,” in Sense and Nonsense in Psychology (1957). I found a quiz on the internet — allegedly based on Eysenck’s work — which can … Continue reading “Political Orientation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}