Illiberal Anarchists - Antifa, White Supremacists, etc.
Illiberal Postmodernists - Coercive legislation, regulatory capture, equality of outcomes, group identity, etc.
Liberal Rent Seekers - Anti-federalism, centralized decision-making, technocrats, managed economy. Establishment Democrats, Establishment Republicans.
Classical Liberals - Locke, Smith, Hume, Mills. Rationalism, evidence-based decision-making, individualism, consent of the governed, bias towards free markets, opposed to monopolies, tea partiers, rule of law, equality before the law, equal rights not equal outcomes, etc.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
An alternative to Left:Right
It is always difficult to capture the hundreds of shades of difference on a political spectrum, and it is especially hard to use neutral terms. Some terms carry loaded meanings, some carry historical baggage. From left to right, perhaps one model might be:
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