March 18, 2023

Politics is the science of governmental power and control; therefore, it logically follows that this should be the measure of the political spectrum.  It also logically follows that it should start with a minimum level at one end and linearly measure the governmental power and control continuum to a maximum value at the other.  There are also just two basic political ideologies: individualism and collectivism, with all falling under these general categories.

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Since the right favors individual liberty and limited government, the minimum value logically belongs on the right side of the political spectrum.  And since the left favors collective rights and virtually unlimited government power and control, the maximum value logically belongs to the left.

It’s not a perfect model by any means, but that’s usually the case with most reality-based phenomena because politics is also based on emotions and nonlinear factors.  In the same way, we can analyze and predict motion based on Newtonian laws of physics because in most cases, we don’t have to worry about relativistic effects.  We can determine what is going on in the political world with this type of logical model of the spectrum.

For all intents and purposes, this is all we need to know about the individualist right and the collectivist left view of governmental power and control.  

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One side favors individual rights and freedoms, starting with anarchism at the minimum level on the far right, then libertarianism, conservatism, and liberalism (in moving from right to left).  The other favors collective “rights” and “freedom,” possessed only by groups of people but nonexistent for the individual.  These are the leftist ideologies of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, and socialism.

These basic facts don’t look good for the far left, so they have to constantly work to confuse the issue.  This is why they have co-opted deceptive words like “liberal” and “progressive”: because the people wouldn’t support them if they knew the truth. 

If you look at polling or simply deal with people in everyday society, you’ll note that most fall into the “leave me alone” category — people who just want to live their lives free from governmental control.  The Hidden Tribes study that we frequently cite is a good reference in this case, although it doesn’t perfectly conform to the model.

You’ll see that their model starts on the right with conservatives.  Then come moderates, the politically disengaged, and liberals, filling up 92% of the spectrum. 

Then they have what they call “Progressive Activists” taking up the far-left 8% — what we call the tyrannical ten percent.  While most people have remained politically stationary, the authoritarians keep on moving ever farther left, away from everyone else, while they use cancel culture to silence anyone who objects to their insanity.

This means that traditional liberals are now politically homeless, and conservatives tend to be perplexed at the difference between the two.  For example, some were astonished when liberal feminist Naomi Wolf apologized to conservatives.  But not those of us who understand the only political spectrum that makes sense.  We know there is a distinct difference between the fascist far left and liberals.