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Old 05-06-2008, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DanishDynamite View Post
Praise for trying to renew the stale old non-descriptive terms currently used in the US. Unfortunately, your redefinitions fail in major ways. They focus only on preconceived ideas and they focus only on economics.

The actual spectrum of viewpoints would be better represented in a graph where the x-axis covered the range from financially conservative to financially non-conservative, and the y-axis covered the range from socially conservative to socially non-conservative.
The problem I see with this is mostly that the two are entwined with one another. If you support forcing someone not to drink alcohol because you think that it's bad for them, why let them make their own choices economically? Take the fanatical Christians for example. People today would consider them to be right-wing. However, these people were heavily involved in the Progressive movement, of which modern liberalism is a decedent. William Jennings Bryan for example, was a populist progressive during the early 20th century and a democratic nominee for president sometime around there. He was also the main person helping the prosecution in the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial," the evolution in public schools case.

I think one of the major reasons for this mix-up is the party system, in which each party takes on new interests (which are not necessarily ideologically compatible with one another) in order to get themselves elected. I also think that both of the parties should become ideologically synced with themselves, based on the political spectrum I have proposed above.
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