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Old 04-02-2011, 08:49 PM   #99
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Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear View Post
I find the whole right/left model really crude...even this Model (as flawed as the method may be) maps a political position on two axes fiscal and social. Even that is crude but can recognize that someone can be fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
Calling the Green party socially liberal on this graph is a laugh, but socially conservative would be equally wrong. More like "socially transformative to a new, totalitarian conservatism".
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