Replacing the Ideological Spectrum

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American Thinker
Bruce Walker
Nov. 1, 2017

Most of the problems conservatives and other normal people have in understanding the language of modern politics comes from the idea that political beliefs can be defined by an ideological spectrum, a geometrical model that requires all conservatives as somehow clumped together in a narrow region of a flat two-dimensional line.

This means that the atheistic followers of Ayn Rand and devout Baptists hold the same opinions and that Hassidic Jews and religiously serious Catholics have the same catechism and that libertarians and pro-life folks have the same values.  Such analysis is totalitarian because it ignores the reality that anti-totalitarians, conservatives, are all one, just as totalitarians are all one.

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Quibbling aside, he's right. And let's ditch 'capitalism' unless we worship capital. 'Free Enterprise' works in that it's about economic freedom.