Personal Political Shift

I think I was in the same position but in the green box rather than the purple a few years ago. I didn't click on "stongly..." on many of my questions. I think the only person with the same results is Jesus or maybe God. Just sayin'.

 

Yeah, Jesus is totally a right-winger.

"Okay guys, see those loaves and fishes I just made? All that's MY private property and none of y'all are getting any unless you give me market value based on a non-interventionist free market economy. Now where's mah gun and mah whiskey?"

 

I thought the red dot was in the middle with a SLIGHT shift to the right.
I think it was the question about the death penalty that moved me that way.
I'm not sure how either feels about the death penalty.
I feel even they can't be bang smack in the middle.

 

Would've thought supporting the death penalty shifted you towards authoritarianism.

 

I only agreed with the statement.

 

I'm still interested in hearing the WHY behind people's political changes over time, I'm always fascinated by those who are able to consider new points of view and change their own.

 

Is a radical shift of three spaces worth talking about?

 

Not sure if your question is rhetorical, but my answer would be yes. If you want to get very specific about the issues that you've changed your mind on (and why), the better.

 

whatever that means

i found a number of the questions to be either leading or inconsequential, and several times wished for a middle option, something like "what the fuck does abstract art [or astrology] have to do with anything?"

 

Lets put Hegel on the left, Marx on the right; and lets put Plato on the bottom and Christianity on top. That way it could be the truth in Pakistan, and even that way also in France.

 

It wasn't. My shift seems small and not noteworthy.

 

except there's a question that quotes marx which i'm sure puts you to the left

none of these lame surveys will be any good unless they stop actually quoting people

 

I went from not really having a view to being rather authoritarian in my teens. I think I simply just disliked the loose attitude of my peers towards, well, everything. Since then and possibly due to education, more understanding of people, less teen angst and self-exploration I've become more libertarian and remain so, though perhaps less than I was. I've always been rather centralist, in favor of retaining some traditional right concepts and some progressive left concepts.

I personally can't see a good reason why people would move to the right as they get older. Maybe you might become more unhappy with your life experiences, thinking life is unfair and want to hold on to what you think you deserve and this might lead to fearing change. It's a small minded point of view but I know many older people who are like that. And i'm not saying the left-leaning are necessarily any less small-minded either.

 

What changed isn't as important to me as why you changed it. Reconsider please.

 

I'm not sure if anything did. I thought I was a few squares to the left of my current position. I might have been mistaken. If anything has changed it's probably down to ticking the strongly agree or disagree rather than just agree or disagree on a few questions. Nothing fundamentally has changed.