Now that you have chosed a few political parties that you think best support your beliefs, let's see how your actual beliefs match your chosen political party.
It is difficult to measure exactly where someone's beliefs about government actually lie using only a a straight line in which one side is conservative, and the other liberal. At the Political Compass website, you are offered to take a multiple choice test about your beliefs about politics of today, and are presented with a graph (see above) that will better measure your political compass and compare it to other politicians.
Go to http://www.politicalcompass.org/test, take and complete the test. Each question on the test will ask about your personal opinions on ideas about social, environmental, and governmental activites and laws. You will answer all these questions with a "Strongly Disagree", and "Disagree", an "Agree", or a "Strongly Agree," depending on how you feel about the subject.
Your answers will assign you a position on a scaled map of 4 quadrents. This graph displays is your economic opinion scale with your social beliefs scale. Your overall political opinions are displayed in a wider spectrum that allows you to see what enviromental, social, or personal beliefs and practices are important to you personally and how that influences your choice in a presidential candidate.
After you have finished, you will be shown ayour very own print out a copy of your political compass, print and staple it to a piece of paper on which you have answered these questions:
- Where would you descride your dot is on the map?
- What politician's dot is close to yours?
- Which is farthest away?
