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AltaGuy has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000.
Join Date: Jun 2007
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I think of it as everyone has a political "basket". In that basket, they've picked up a bunch of political opinions:
Gus is a low tax, free trade, enviromentalist. Those are the things he has in his basket.
Sarah is a anti-vaxxer, progressive taxation, pro pipeline, drill for oil everywhere, pro free trader.
Some of your political views will be core and some peripheral. Individuals will tend to associate themselves with parties and groups that share the core basket ingredients, if not the peripherals. (Especially not in the States where there are just two parties.)
Abortion rights are a good example here: most people have the issue as a "core" belief, making it less likely that one would label themselves the same way as someone holding the opposite viewpoint. Not everyone has abortion as "core" however: some people don't care that much or put a heavy emphasis on the issue. These people can fit under an umbrella such as a party or group containing both pro-life and pro-choicers.
The spectrum breaks down because a basket can contain all sorts of ideas from all over the traditional spectrum. A guy like Trump sells a basket very different from a traditional republican or right winger.
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