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[Dill]

(05-31-2017, 02:04 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Interesting, so you're saying that Libertarians are the next closest thing to Facists?

Please, do explain...

Not my fight, but I cannot resist an answer.

Strictly linnear representations of the political spectrum are inherently flawed. Some of the right positions on the political spectrum are so qualitatively different from one another that it is distorting to place one further right than the other. E.G. Fascism and paleoconservatism are certainly far right, but they are also very different and their representatives usually hate one another.

Libertarians are spread across the spectrum from left to right; they evolve from both left and right positions, though the right wing disposition tends to dominate in US discourse.  That is probably what XXLT's spectrum is designed to show.

Also in the US, after the Bush fiasco, many Republicans de-identified with their party, deciding to become "independents" or libertarians. They still hold the same Republican priorities when they vote, though. They are libertarians when it comes to government interventions like welfare and foreign aid, but conservatives when it comes to immigration and civil rights.