I love all the whackadoo shapes like stethoscope, horseshoe, and fishhook that people are forced to use to cling to the notion that political ideology is linear.
There are two legislative variables- societal and economic. That requires two axes for accurate plotting, and why it’s so difficult to fit an authoritarian socialist on a line that is primarily determining a socialized vs. conservative economy.
Realistically, even the political compass is a vast simplification of how real politics works. We usually visualise most mainstream democratic parties on the y=x line on the compass, but there are almost as many exceptions to that guideline as there are examples of it.
For example, left leaning parties overwhelmingly are more likely to support gun control or anti-hate-speech laws, although those are essentially authoritarian social policies. And conservatives support left-economic policies like restricting companies’ ability to moderate their content as they see fit. Or their support of the army, which is an enormous government-run organisation.
But still, yeah, having a 2d set of axes gives you a much better look at where parties sit in relation to each other than trying to visualise it on a single line.
I love all the whackadoo shapes like stethoscope, horseshoe, and fishhook that people are forced to use to cling to the notion that political ideology is linear.
There are two legislative variables- societal and economic. That requires two axes for accurate plotting, and why it’s so difficult to fit an authoritarian socialist on a line that is primarily determining a socialized vs. conservative economy.
Realistically, even the political compass is a vast simplification of how real politics works. We usually visualise most mainstream democratic parties on the y=x line on the compass, but there are almost as many exceptions to that guideline as there are examples of it.
For example, left leaning parties overwhelmingly are more likely to support gun control or anti-hate-speech laws, although those are essentially authoritarian social policies. And conservatives support left-economic policies like restricting companies’ ability to moderate their content as they see fit. Or their support of the army, which is an enormous government-run organisation.
But still, yeah, having a 2d set of axes gives you a much better look at where parties sit in relation to each other than trying to visualise it on a single line.