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The political quadrant model is seriously overrated. It may be that libertarian/authoritarian Left is a meaningful distinction in some contexts and not others;
by prionassembly 6y ago
The political quadrant model is seriously overrated. It may be that libertarian/authoritarian Left is a meaningful distinction in some contexts and not others; or that authoritarian Left/Right is a useful categorization for some purposes, but not for others.
- bhupy 6y agoWhy, specifically?
- prionassembly 6y agoBecause the pair of distinctions chosen makes sense in some cases and not in others. I provided two examples in my comment above.
- bhupy 6y agoI don't see any examples in your comment.
- prionassembly 6y agoI might be engaging a troll, but I'll ctrl-c ctrl-v. "It may be that libertarian/authoritarian Left is a meaningful distinction in some contexts and not others; or that authoritarian Left/Right is a useful categorization for some purposes, but not for others."
- bhupy 6y agoSeriously, I am not trolling. Those are not an examples, you're just re-iterating why you think the quadrants are inappropriate. My question is what are some specific examples of "contexts" in which lib/auth left/right is NOT a meaningful distinction? From where I sit, the quadrant is the least bad way to classify and categorize ideological views. It's certainly less lossy than categorizing on a single dimensional left/right spectrum.