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To: tanknetter

Your graph has no quadrant for conservatives.

Logically it appears you put them in the compartment of facists, which is absurd.


63 posted on 06/11/2014 7:39:13 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Russians to the Left of me, Useful Idiots to the Right...)
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To: rbmillerjr

Fascists exist at the extreme corner of the lower right. It’s really impossible to be a 100% perfect Fascist, just like it’s impossible to be a 100% pure Objectivist or Hippie Libertarian or Communist. Those are theoretical endpoints, not practical ones.

So in the context of where Conservatives fall within the quadrant, the question becomes how one wants Conservative values propagated through society. Either through societal mechanisms (shaming, for instance), or government mandate. The former puts one in the upper right quadrant, the latter in the lower right.

Of course, even the two dimensional construct is too simplistic, because in reality it comes down to specific issues (and is therefore really three dimensional)

For instance, someone can simultaneously hold the upper right Libertarisn view that the government should stay the heck out of restricting gun ownership as well as the lower right one that the government should be very much involved in restricting abortion ...


76 posted on 06/11/2014 7:59:29 AM PDT by tanknetter
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