on the political compass, I’m a left-libertarian (-7.63 economic left/right and -7.23 social libertarian/authoritarian). basically the lower left corner/southwest quadrant. in real world/real person terms, you can think of that as somewhere between karl marx and noam chomsky.
the political compass is not an infallible guide, given that your positions on any one issue will change over time, but it is useful for seeing where you fit in the big picture. Ars Technica has a great site which was updated for the 2020 u.s. presidential election - and it is notable that Bernie Sanders is closer to the center (-1.5, -1) while still being in the same quadrant as myself. a criticism I have is that the compass misses a lot of nuance, but that’s what civil dialogue and conversation are for.
as for myself, I typically vote blue when it matters (e.g., general elections) and have done so in the past when I lived in NYC (which didn’t have ranked choice during those elections in which I voted), but lately I’ve been thinking of changing my voter registration to “independent” since that more accurately reflects who I am. if only there was a viable third party on the national scene, l would go for that in a heartbeat; unfortunately the likelihood of that occurring in a country whose voting systems are mostly based on first-past-the-post is practically nil.
as a side note, I’m a politics/political science junkie and it’s great that BZ has this subsection where I have a feeling I’ll be spending a lot of time, lol.