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Left vs. Right (US) [interesting graphic]
information is beautiful ^ | December 2011 | David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec

Posted on 07/16/2018 8:50:08 PM PDT by DoodleBob

This graphic shows left & right, liberal vs conservative, blue vs red, from a US perspective.



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This website has some very cool visual displays of information, which (I think) help tell the respective stories much better than typical, boring graphics. I thought this graphic, while produced by a self-identified left-leaning journalistic type, was interesting and somewhat balanced. I was particularly drawn to this lefty's contrasts...I think, unintentionally, he shows the danger of the left (e.g., INTERFERE WITH SOCIETY & SOCIAL LIVES, TAX AND SPEND, UTOPIANISM).
1 posted on 07/16/2018 8:50:08 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Thanks for posting it...I will check out some of the other graphics there.


2 posted on 07/16/2018 8:51:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: DoodleBob

Gives way to much credence to what the lefties claim to believe, when in fact those things are more often a smokescreen for some very ugly motivations.


3 posted on 07/16/2018 8:54:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rlmorel

Well, at least he got the colors right.


4 posted on 07/16/2018 8:55:53 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: BenLurkin

Well stated, FRiend.


5 posted on 07/16/2018 8:56:28 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: DoodleBob

I whole-heartedly disagree with much of this.

My parents are very loving, and encouraged me as the graphic shows the left.

I’m very, very far right.

Also, to see that the Left has any reverence for God... whatsoever.. is laughable. And that the Right are against gay rights is also laughable.

It’s simple. The left is evil. The right is good.

The left do more than entertain debate on the topic, they actually ENDORSE the murder of babies in-utero.

At that point, lets abandon any comparison. Abandon any reason or justification. They need to be squelched fully and permanently.


6 posted on 07/16/2018 8:57:10 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: DoodleBob

Hillary was no dove


7 posted on 07/16/2018 8:59:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: Nothingburger

yep, commie pinko and true blue american


8 posted on 07/16/2018 9:00:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: BenLurkin

Bingo! There is what they claim to stand for, and what they actually practice. In point of fact, they are anything but “liberal” - quite the opposite. They demand strict conformance to their agenda.


9 posted on 07/16/2018 9:00:40 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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Did the graph intentionally leave out black and brown democrats?


10 posted on 07/16/2018 9:01:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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...produced by a self-identified left-leaning journalistic type...

Whoever put this graphic together is more than just "left leaning" - he/she is very, very much in the left camp.

11 posted on 07/16/2018 9:01:50 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: Celerity

Margaret Sanger wasn’t pro-choice, she was adamant that she wanted no more babies for a period of 10 years no-matter if a woman WANTED to have children.

Additionally the people that developed birth control pills gave them to women who WANTED to conceive and told them it was a fertility treatment. Wonder how many marriages fell apart because of this stunt. Wonder how many women never did get to conceive who wanted to but were subjected to criminal medical experimentation based on a fat lie.


12 posted on 07/16/2018 9:04:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: DoodleBob

They claim science for the left - the left of 87 genders and the non-human fetus that is carried inside the human body.


13 posted on 07/16/2018 9:09:04 PM PDT by dead
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Spot on so far as Commie red is concerned, but the colors need to be flip flopped to correspond to recent “Red America” (GOP) v. “Blue America” parlance.


14 posted on 07/16/2018 9:12:40 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

He’s a Brit...where a Tory is like a hawkish Dem. Thus he’s probably right of Pelosi but left of Collins.


15 posted on 07/16/2018 9:16:03 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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I have always been fascinated by and attracted to the concept of conveying data in a graphical fashion to make it easier to understand. One of my all time favorites is this one:


16 posted on 07/16/2018 9:16:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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It is FAR from perfect, but as DoodleBob opined, you can clearly see the bias of the creator of that graph shining through.

For me, the "91% support war" begged the question of just what exactly that means. And there are a lot of things like that in there, but I found it interesting nonetheless.

17 posted on 07/16/2018 9:21:08 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel

I also found the chart to make straw man arguments of conservative ideals. It’s largely a caricature of the elements of conservative thought the left doesn’t understand, or cannot fathom the nuance of.

It’s interesting that the chart uses terms like “Militaristic” and “Aggression” and “Tough Love” which all have a generally negative connotation while using “Pacifism” and “Diplomacy” for the left with “Nurturing.”

It’s cool to look at though. :)


18 posted on 07/16/2018 9:24:23 PM PDT by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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Draw a straight line across a piece of paper. On the left put communism, Nazism, Monarchies, Dictators, etc. Or to put it simply, Oligarchies.

On the far middle left, put democracies. All true democracies fail, often violently.

In the middle right, put Constitutional Republic.

On the far right, put anarchy.

19 posted on 07/16/2018 9:29:33 PM PDT by crz
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Here’s the thing; you can quickly go down a rabbit hole with “left vs. right”. Instead it is much better to compare Marxism vs Liberty.


20 posted on 07/16/2018 9:29:43 PM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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