The political spectrum

[Oddball]

That's certainly not true as represented by Ds and Rs.

The "Rs" are prop player jobbers.....Have been since at least the day Coolidge left office.

 

[TNHarley]

That's certainly not true as represented by Ds and Rs.

Considering what I said after that, it certainly is true.

 

[progressive hunter]

That's certainly not true as represented by Ds and Rs.

D's and R's are both leftwing,,,

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Grow up.

This from the guy that is incapable of having a discussion without 3rd grade insults.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

NONE of you retards have even bothered to try to discredit my OP. Just whine and say "nuh uh"

Your OP has been discredited by reality.

It just simply does not exist.

There is a left and a right in this country, the fact one of them does not fit your made up definition does not change the reality of the situation.

 

[OldFlame]

In a world of absolutes where things have a meaning that are not determined by situation then lying and killing have to always be right or always be wrong...unless of course the situation matters all of a sudden.

Your thinking is totally ass backwards, in your world there would be no 'right' or 'left', it would just be whatever you decided it meant on any given particular day. How is something considered left or right if there is not a defined spectrum to compare it against? If it's always changing, then you can never define it. You could never say that a group is 'moving more left' because the situation has evolved and changed, they're more left from what? What they used to be? When you start saying that, then you're putting a pin on the board and using it as a comparison point, which is exactly what I'm doing. Starting with the set definition of the political spectrum and then comparing political groups against it to see where they fall.

 

[OldFlame]

Your OP has been discredited by reality.

It just simply does not exist.

There is a left and a right in this country, the fact one of them does not fit your made up definition does not change the reality of the situation.

Good God, you are just not grasping the concept at all. It's a definition and reality is measured against it, not the other way around.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Good God, you are just not grasping the concept at all. It's a definition and reality is measured against it, not the other way around.

What is the point of a "definition " that has no basis in reality?

You have some pie in the sky definition that has never existed in human history, what is the point?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Your thinking is totally ass backwards, in your world there would be no 'right' or 'left', it would just be whatever you decided it meant on any given particular day. How is something considered left or right if there is not a defined spectrum to compare it against? If it's always changing, then you can never define it. You could never say that a group is 'moving more left' because the situation has evolved and changed, they're more left from what? What they used to be? When you start saying that, then you're putting a pin on the board and using it as a comparison point, which is exactly what I'm doing. Starting with the set definition of the political spectrum and then comparing political groups against it to see where they fall.

The difference is that where you are putting your pin never existed.

 

[OldFlame]

What is the point of a "definition " that has no basis in reality?

You have some pie in the sky definition that has never existed in human history, what is the point?

It is based on reality.

 

[Blaster]

Scrapping 200 years of political thought just to blame every bad thing in human governance on the left might be the most retarded thing the right has ever done.

The fact is leftist policies have deeply divided our nation.

 

[OldFlame]

The difference is that where you are putting your pin never existed.

It's all of the possibilities represented in one picture.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It is based on reality.

A realty that never has existed.

 

[occupied]

The fact is leftist policies have deeply divided our nation.

That's only because the billionaire class has a host of useful idiots like you who seize on every manufactured wedge issue that comes along.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It's all of the possibilities represented in one picture.

In this country one party is to the right of the other one (as far as the rank and file members go, there is far less difference in the elected officials)

Thus one party is on the right and one is on the left, whether the one on the right meets your strict, made up definition of "right" is pretty much irrelevant.

 

[Blaster]

That's only because the billionaire class has a host of useful idiots like you who seize on every manufactured wedge issue that comes along.

I am not a billionaire so you guessed wrong.

 

[TNHarley]

This from the guy that is incapable of having a discussion without 3rd grade insults.

Nice retort, FAGAt.

 

[TNHarley]

There is a left and a right in this country,

Of course there is. WTF

 

[TNHarley]

In this country one party is to the right of the other one (as far as the rank and file members go, there is far less difference in the elected officials)

Thus one party is on the right and one is on the left, whether the one on the right meets your strict, made up definition of "right" is pretty much irrelevant.

 

[dblack]

D's and R's are both leftwing,,,

I think they're both statist. But I don't think left/right equates to authoritarian/libertarian. The Nolan chart does a better job of mapping the political landscape.