Holy ********* Crazy

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(05-31-2017, 02:30 PM)Dill Wrote: 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.

Xxlt didn't feel so when he decided to post a "PSA" to insult my views and put me next to fascists (who are not inherently right wing either).

They don't need you to make excuses for them. I know exactly what it was designed to show. Anyone who doesn't agree with them is a fascist. Just like anyone who doesn't agree with their (ie Griever in another thread) is a racist. Just like anyone who doesn't agree with them is a sexist or a bigot.

It's getting really tedious to go on this board (or really most places on the internet these days) and all it is, is a big circle jerk of Trump hate, and if you don't agree, you will be called some of the worst things imaginable regardless of the fact that fascism and belief in personal rights and free will are pretty much opposites. That's the MO these days.

Just getting real old.