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(06-02-2017, 08:50 AM)xxlt Wrote: The proximity of Bush to Hitler... I think 5 years ago someone (you?) shared this on mothership... the cry went up how dare you compare Bush to Hitler. So now the Bush boys are all libertarians, but their quadrant lacks names and includes a female - they have been insulted again! Perhaps even more this time. Also if libertarian appears inside and outside shouldn't authoritarian? Or should the bottom of the chart say anarchy?

The other proximity thing I liked was Benedict being more authoritarian than Castro. Valid.

Progressives are authoritarian? I guess Jeff Sessions would agree.

That's the issue with that chart. It's two dimensional but they're trying to double up on the Y axis, using it to represent social liberalism/conservatism and authoritarianism/anarchy (which I agree should replace "libertarian" at the bottom). 

Progressivism is often more authoritative because it empowers the government to enforce these regulations or laws just as conservatism empowers the government to enforce social restrictions, where as libertarianism would lean anarchy as it seeks to remove government power. 

With regards to your response to me, some libertarians embrace it in a cult like manner, obsessed with the theorists. In that sense, it may remind someone of fascism, but the very fact that they want to minimize government makes them no where near actual fascism, where the state is glorified and your life is modeled after adoration of the state. There can be nationalism within libertarianism, but they would likely argue it's a reverence of the culture not the government.