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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

The "left" is way too broad of a grouping today. The classic political compass is 2D with left-right referring to economic and up-down (authoritarian-libertarian) to social policy. And even that is oversimplifying it, many saying it should be 3D. Grouping everyone into either A or B is I guess what humans do when their understanding of a topic is too narrow.

I find this especially funny with Trump's tariffs. You know, the mechanism with which you control the market... closing it... like leftist economic policy does. Trump is a leftist now? Any more tariffs and he'll be a complete communist! Dismantle more government and he'll be an anarchist! It just completely falls apart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

While this is somewhat true, in all of the west there are only 3 groups currently : liberals, fascists and leftists.

Liberals are a diverse group, ranging from socio-democrat and liberal green parties to libertarian who leans on fascism.

Fascists are all the brands of conservatives who leverage racism, authoritarianism and nationalism.

Leftists are basically the groups opposed to both fascism and liberalism.

Those are 3 objective groups. They are the groups that determine how likely they will cooperate or oppose each other, or how elections will turn.

Some parties will be a bit in between, but that's merely political communication. In practice a group that promote itself as a middle group is actually leaning right. This means that "leftist liberals" (who range from some green parties and movements to the socio-democrats) will always pick liberals if they must choose between them and the left. Likewise, conservatives and libertariens are leaning toward fascism when given the choice.

The political spectrum is radicalised and triparted. You can deny this model and blur the information, but it usually means that you are leaning more to the right than you are pretending.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This is supposed to be a tetrahedron, but I suck at drawing 3D shapes. Just imagine that anarchism is the top of the tetrahedron and that the triangle is the base.

EDIT: Also, yellow is liberalism, if you can’t read it

EDIT 2: I have no qualm with down-voting, but I would prefer a comment explaining what parts specifically you did not like, so I know how to not make the same mistake in the future.