886 Political Quadrants

<p>There is a very famous political test that purports to determine your ideology from answering a list of questions. The reason the test has such wide appeal is that it's a simple box of four colored quadrants, and though it's difficult to understand, it's easy to comprehend. The quadrants are Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism & Libertarianism. Liberalism is progressives, the SJW types; Conservatism is paternalism via culture & traditions; Socialism is egalitarianism, the Equality crowd; and Libertarianism is everyone out for themselves.</p> <p>The horizontal axis between the quadrants linearizes the differences in economic ideology: Free Markets & Capitalism vs. managed markets. The vertical axis delineates those who believe in personal liberty & autonomy, from those who believe the needs of the group supersede the wants of the individual. The very center of the box would therefore be the most complex to define because it's a mixture of all the divergent aspects, but it can be simply described as individual liberty with some socialism while regulating Free Markets.</p>