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Argh.
A one-dimensional political spectrum is crap and is one of the things wrong with the political process in this country. It leads to way too much of the "my team will beat yours" nonsense that goes on between the Republicans and Democrats, both of whom appear to operate nearly completely from a desire for power rather than from any consistent, principled stand.
Check out the political diamond, formed from a two-dimensional understanding (still not great obviously but better than just one dimension):
While I find this more useful than the idea of a one-dimensional spectrum, I also find it somehow deceptive, because I see absolutely no fundamental difference between so-called economic and so-called personal freedoms.
Both major American political parties seek to reduce my freedom in too many key ways for me to be interested in identifying with them.
--matt
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