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For however conservative Utah is, they are very community oriented so in practice, they seem to implement some fairly socialist policies. They were real early i
by kristopolous 2y ago
For however conservative Utah is, they are very community oriented so in practice, they seem to implement some fairly socialist policies. They were real early in housing first and they have a pretty nice built-out public transit system, a bunch of coops, 3x the average of credit union membership ... things like that.
- rayiner 2y agoThere’s a communitarian-libertarian axis that’s distinct from the conservative-liberal axis. While libertarianism tends to dominate both the left and right in the U.S., I suspect most American conservatives outside the coasts are more communitarian, closer to Christian democrats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_democracy. Conversely, while American liberals have putatively communal ambitions, they’re often too fragmented and individualistic to accomplish them.
- kristopolous 2y agoIf you're referring to the political compass, that thing is just an astrological star chart for politics. It's just about as accurate. Go to Wikipedia for that, about 70% of the word count is calling it nonsense https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass Those are the numbers you get with topics like homeopathy
- rayiner 2y agoI don’t know what the political compass is. I’m talking about polls that show a large share of republicans support things like social security and Medicare expansion: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/poll-a-majority-of-republicans-support-medicare-for-all.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/poll-a-majority-of-r....
- kristopolous 2y agoThanks for the clarification