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JoeStuckInOH

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5. There's both political (conservative vs progressive) and executive (pure democracy vs dictator).
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 11:27 AM
Sep 2017

there's a difference in what your political beliefs are (conservative vs. progressive) versus how you believe those beliefs should be implemented (democracy vs. authoritarianism). I think a 2-axis system is enough to categorize most mainstream candidates and political feelings that have even a chance of being relevant. Sure, there's probably a hundred different metrics you can quantify to put everyone in their boxes.... but it's unnecessary to pick nits at the level. Left/Right vs democracy/dictatorship is plenty.

Nobody really needs to know that somebody else is a progressive-libertarian-anticorprocrat-jingoist.
Just say, "After Bernie lost I decided to vote for Trump". Then we'll all know everything wee need without the political word-salad description.

I find it funny that everyone feels the need to quantify everything about everything. Did a bunch of biologists decide to pursue post-graduate anthropology studies at some point?

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