I never noticed a distaste for America in his posts, just a critique of the faults we have. However, for everybodies enjoyment, here's a fairly good test that will place you in a four quadrant ranking. The left/right thing is wholly inadequate, as most of you would probably agree, and a 2D ranking isn't all that much better (twice as good?), but at least this test isn't based on five questions, as some of them are.

The shortcomings of this test is that every question is asked only once. I can see from my own reactions to some of the questions that I would have answered differently if the questions had been worded just slightly different. A better survey would ask the same question in slightly different ways to rule out biases based on misunderstanding or misinterpretation of one specific wording. Nonetheless, it's not bad for what it costs (which is nothing, in case you were wondering).

http://www.politicalcompass.org/


And in case anybody here doubted where my score fell, find the point for Ghandi, and my point would overlap his. I'm not too upset about that.