06-01-2017, 05:56 PM
(06-01-2017, 05:41 PM)Dill Wrote: Here is an attempt to fit a US spectrum into the "global scale" you mention--though I think this scale is not really global. The European American spectrum may not work at all in Asia or the Middle East.
![[Image: 4647814-political-ideology-spectrum.jpg]](http://q.likesuccess.com/93/4647814-political-ideology-spectrum.jpg)
You're right, my statement is from a very Eurocentric mindset. I have been attempting to learn more about Asian politics, but the world is a big place.
As for the scale itself, that is a bit misleading. I'll explain why later, for now, I must head home.
Edit: And now that I am home...this graph would be better served as a box plot. While technically correct, there is certainly not an even distribution across those lines on the graph and a box plot would show a concentration for the Democrats between the center and conservative markers. For the Republicans it would be not quite centered on the conservative marker, but the longer side of the box would be towards the reactionary marker.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
