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Politics is confusing
by Bob Boblo on Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:03 pm
Because the Right Wing is the Wrong Wing
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Taytaz on Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:05 pm
ouch
and the left wing is the right wing and centrists are either left or right leaning (wouldn't they fall over?)
and the left wing is the right wing and centrists are either left or right leaning (wouldn't they fall over?)
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Fearless Dingo on Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:45 pm
Bob Boblo wrote:Because the Right Wing is the Wrong Wing
Another marvellously vague assertion. I'm going to call you out on this one: why on earth should you believe that to be true?
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Nemo Mobilis on Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:03 pm
Go far enough left and you're just about back on the right.
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Re: Politics is confusing
by twaters on Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:12 pm
Go far enough left and you'll be very left. Have a look at the political spectrum - orientation is seen as a grid, not a line. Thus [i repeat] "Go far enough left and you'll...be very left."
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Taytaz on Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:16 pm
hardlyNemo Mobilis wrote:Go far enough left and you're just about back on the right.
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Nemo Mobilis on Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:56 pm
Well Fascists look an awful lot like Authoritarian Dictatorships for the Proletariat. Both watch you like a hawk and control everything.
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Taytaz on Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:57 pm
yarrr....but far left is not far North...
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Nemo Mobilis on Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:03 pm
Besides I'm using the concept of left to right, the "political compass" as a multi axis map of ideology is only a few years old by my estimation. I mean it's based on the Nolan chart from the 70's but has only really taken off in its new form in the last ten years.
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Re: Politics is confusing
by twaters on Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:28 pm
Well, maybe us lefties are just quicker to accept progress and innovation 
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Nemo Mobilis on Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:41 pm
Well then let me retort simply that the crux of this conversation is based originally on the use of terms "Right and "Left" wing, suggesting the use of a single line, and the preference for one end over the other. Secondly I'm the guy who scored Economic Left/Right: -8.00, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62 on this same test we are now referencing. So I suppose I'm just as progressive.
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Taytaz on Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:51 pm
is -8.62 authoritarian or libertarian?
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Taytaz on Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:58 pm
wow, then you are almost exactly me...but i was -5.9 libertarian...
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Nemo Mobilis on Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:00 pm
Yeah I skew hard to the bottom left for liberty.
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Re: Politics is confusing
by shadow on Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:52 am
the origin of this can be found in France. In the French parliament, the the more fascist party's refused to sit besides the communist party's and vica versa so they both sat as far from each other as possible. with the moderate politicians in the middle. That's where the names "right politician" and "left politician" come from.
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Re: Politics is confusing
by Taytaz on Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:06 am
Maybe the French didn't want to sit next to other French because then they'd have to do that akwaed greeting kiss
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