Political Spectrum

The mainstream leftist media tries to paint all of politics as either left or right. They are effective at it, as many"conservative" friends actually thought Mitt Romney was conservative!!!

What troubles me with any characterization is that they can be so misleading. And this is true with the concept of progressive vs. conservative. Also known as leftist ideology vs. right wing.

Throw into the mix the ideas of the Constitution party (which I will refer to as Constitutionalism) and the ideas of the Libertarian party (Libertarianism), and things really get muddy.

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Or do they???

Some notes:

Libertarianism
This includes the Libertarian party, and other parties whose platforms are mostly free of more government control. The Green party would probably find itself in the lower left side of the libertarian quadrant. From what I can tell, the Justice party would be in this quadrant - likely at the lower right corner.

Constitutionalism
This would include the Constitution Party. Reagan would have been in the lower left corner of this quadrant. What I think is the best named party ever - the Rent is Too Damn High party - would likely be in the lower left part of this quadrant, too.

Fascism
This would include Christofascism as well as Islamofascism. Even among the minor American parties, it is hard to find too many that would be solidly in the middle of this quadrant.
It is worthy of note that crony-capitalism, specifically right-wing crony-capitalism, would be in this quadrant. Some call this corporate fascism, and that term is accurate.

A small part of the NeoCons - the "establishment" part of the Republican party exists here. Only a small part.

Socialism
- Communism
- Marxism
- Socialism (duh!)
- American Progressivism.
- Democratic Party (USA)
- Leftist crony-capitalism
All of these are solidly in this quadrant.

Much of the modern Republican party finds itself in this quadrant with regards to how they vote. Here is how it breaks down:

 The red is the Republican party.

Purple is most independents who vote one way or the other, but not 3rd party.

Blue is the Democrat party.

Summary:
Yep, I just called the American Establishment Republicans a bunch of fascists, which they are.
Yep, I just called the American Democrat Party a bunch of leftists, which they are.

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