re: #77 Buck

The spectrum doesn’t exist as a line, or a circle, or any other simplistic representation. There is no relationship between being, say ‘right’ on economic issues and ‘right’ on social issues.

And the final positions have nothing to do with the starting precepts, as is easily visible as those on the ‘right’ now arguing vociferously against a universal health plan that originated with the ‘right’.

One can come to a libertarian argument for single-payer care as easily as one can argue from a socialist perspective.

A large part of the problem in politics is people thinking of the political spectrum as a line, a circle, or in any way two or even simply three dimensional. It is not.