>The political compass always felt like the wrong tool to convey something as nuanced as personal politics the (I'm going to call it so-called) political compa

>The political compass always felt like the wrong tool to convey something as nuanced as personal politics the (I'm going to call it so-called) political compass is a very crude instrument, really it's just "are you libertarian or authoritarian?" as if that's even a spectrum: libertarians are authoritarian about enforcing private contracts, and literally nobody else wants to live their life by private contracts, it's some weird asperger's notion of socializing. a much more useful political map is the old fiscal and social orthogonal axes, each with the scales "liberal to conservative" where libertarians are fiscally conservative socially liberal.