Click the chart to enlarge. It's a fairly comprehensive comparison although being a self-described Libertarian-Socialist I personally don't subscribe to the popular perception that everyone in the United States is either totally on the left or on the right of the political spectrum. I agree with several of the tenets on the conservative end of the spectrum yet most of their core values seem way too extreme and anti-intellectual for me while I agree with most liberal values although several of their core principles strike me as extremely weak and ineffectual. Which I suppose goes a long way towards explaining why I belong to neither major political party.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Left vs Right: A Chart Of Extremes
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Interesting chart. It breaks down in trying to be too finely detailed, in my view.
It also makes a pretty fundamental error in that the mainstream of the Democratic Party is a centrist or even center-right coalition rather than left-wing. Likewise, since the end of the Cold War has dampened the enthusiasm of traditional European socialists and since the rise of the Green movement has created a very new and different European left wing, the Labour parties of most countries have moved aggressively to the center and are no longer 'left-wing' at all. Both British 'New Labour' and the Israeli Labour Party's shift to the center as left-wing politics have broken down in that country are prime examples.
This chart is extremelt confusing (at first) because the red is the left and the blue is the right. It really threw me off.
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