Re: Censorial leftists (Was: Interesting article)

[Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, James Love wrote:

> Declan McCullagh wrote:
> > 
> > Jamie, if you're seriously confused about the differences between
> > left-wing and right-wing groups I can help educate you, perhaps with a few
> > rules of thumb. But I suspect that you really don't want a serious answer.
> 
>     I didn't think the big government fetish answer was very good.  I
> don't want to put words in your mouth.  But if you think you can really
> explain what constitutes a leftist, in your view, I'm ready to read it.
> 
>     Jamie

Man!  Talk about burning bandwidth on politics 101.  The problem
is that you're both stuck using Orwellian newspeak for political
classification.  If people only have a single dimension to 
classify political beliefs then there can't be very many
beliefs.

Multidimensional political beliefs systems don't hash into the
one dimensional left/right axis very well.   The collision
rate is too high.

For a somewhat better map at least check out the Nolan chart.

http://www.self-gov.org/lp-quiz.shtml

enjoy

jim