Can’t believe it’s been 21 years since I started doing this, but here we are. They say you get more conservative as you grow older, and yet, this year marks my farthest to the left since I started taking this test. Getting pretty close to being pinned directly in that bottom left corner.

It’s my once-annual visit to my blog! Almost missed it this month. Twenty years of taking the Political Compass test has shown you do get more conservative as you grow older. For instance, last year I was even farther in the bottom left quadrant! But when you’re basically against the wall, there aren’t many places to go.

I know the test hasn’t changed at all, but sometimes I’ll get tripped up on a question here and there. The real story here is that I’ve been hanging out in almost the same spot for two straight decades.

Economic Left/Right: -9.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.28

While the timing of this test comes at a point when I am, shall we say, agitated at the current state of the world, it’s only a slight outlier on a rather tight grouping over the last 19 years I’ve been taking this test. I’d say the libertarian axis is likely a direct result of current events, but it’s also a result of very few questions being answered other than “Strongly Agree” or “Strongly Disagree.” I know what I believe, with certainty. I haven’t become more extreme in my beliefs, I’ve just solidified them. The new current crises have only served to put them into sharper focus.

I usually do this in May, but I forgot again. WHOOPS.

Not much of a change (at all) here:

Economic Left/Right: -9.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

I usually do this in May each year, and what do you know, the fifteen years that was May just flew by. So here’s my Political Compass update:

Yep, that’s:
Economic Left/Right: -9.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08

I’m sure current events may have something to do with that being the first time both of those numbers have hit -9, but it’s really right in the ballpark for me.

I first took the Political Compass test in 2004, shortly after I became politically aware. Those were my heady days of idealism, with the zealot’s fervor of the converted. The test has remained unchanged in the intervening 15 years, and so has my general score on it.

Economic Left/Right: -9.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56

Basically, I’ve remained a pinko. Age has not mellowed my beliefs, it’s just jaded my view of the process. I was young and idealistic in 2004, now I’m just old and fatalistic.

Economic Left/Right: -9.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

Right on target.  Also, exactly a year.

That’s right, it’s time for my yearly Political Compass Test!

Almost identical to my result from last year – .25 deviation on one axis.  Still pinker than raw chicken.