This week, The Wall Street Journal launched the new Vote Compass interactive tool, which lets you plot your political beliefs against those of the presidential candidates.

As @HarryGiles points out in his “Dialectical Theory of Memes” graphic, the political compass meme is limited because every person or element is stuck in a static position on the compass.

When I was in 11th grade, I took a Government and Politics class. Early on in the course, we took The Political Compass test. It was great, And by great, I mean it is the kind of test that you ...

The first use of the Kamala Harris political compass meme appeared on Twitter on July 24, 2024, by user @waldenmgreen. It makes use of two popular and highly meme quotes from Harris in speeches ...

While the Political Compass Test claims to accurately diagnose an individual’s political leaning, the test fails to capture nuance. By placing people into one singular point on the graph, the test ...

The Compass, for better or worse, is a test that gives us an idea of where we stand on the global political scale, and how we relate to politicians who are competing for our support.