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(06-01-2017, 02:13 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: So, I don't know what would be a good visualization for these sorts of things. I know that I could see a compilation of many 1D charts for components of the various political ideologies would be eye-opening. You mention libertarianism being around communism, and what is interesting is that on several of those charts those two would be very close to each other. At least as the ideologies are typically looked at in theory in the realm of political science.

I get what you are saying, though. I make the comment that people on here would call me a communist, or just to the right of Stalin, but that my ideological bent is center-left on the global scale. So perspectives on the left-right spectrum in this country are skewed because of the shift to the right leaving a center/center-right party that is left of a party on the right. I mean, there are ways that the Democrats are more conservative than the center-right CDU/CSU party in Germany. Of course, I am speaking of the way these politicians in these parties vote in their blocs in Congress. Since the parties themselves don't really care about policy in this country and the politicians themselves don't have to adhere to the party's platform, it's hard to really assign these things.


I split your post up and typed up my part one response before reading this section. I took a walk around the quad, then came back to my office and read this more thoroughly. I find it funny that I said the same thing you said in the last portion, here. But yes, the GOP and the way their elected officials have been voting in a group is more akin to the AfD or Front national rather than the CDU/CSU or, say, Les Républicains, which is where the GOP under Reagan and Nixon would have aligned with.

I found that funny too. I was like... he realizes we are in agreement here, right... and of course you did.

I wish I was up on European politics as you are now. My knowledge is very general and base on history much more than contemporary activity... I just know that in terms of political diversity most of the EU, hell most of the world, runs rings around the US. There are practically dictatorships with more flavors the our political marketplace.