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What Right Wing Extremists? (Update)

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JCM6/16/2009 2:29:36 pm PDT

re: #152 Enkidu90046

This is my first post here at LGF (I just registered yesterday). I am sure that I am in no way breaking any new ground by saying this, but the political spectrum being described in a linear fashion has never made sense to me. It seems to me that if you go far enough to the “left,” you pop out on the “right,” and vice versa. Wackos are wackos, regardless of their description of being on the left or right end of the political spectrum.

A better way is the Political compass. You’ve got left and right, but also Authoritarian (up) and Libertarian (down). So Up and Right = Nazi, Up and Left = Communist. Down and left = Anarchist. Down and Right Libertarian.