🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 on Nostr: npub1p34kn…jwdy6 Looking at your number line… you see the Dems, Obama, and Biden ...
npub1p34kn5su0fzjmsqx7wegqftnd34xr7as808udkxyltcl9zw6jrqqajwdy6 (npub1p34…wdy6) Looking at your number line… you see the Dems, Obama, and Biden as closer to the socialists, Greens, etc. than to the GOP? Really??
Nope, lets use the analogy to show why.
I am just going to pick arbitrary numbers they dont represent where I think these parties fall on the left-right spectrum. They are just to illustrate a point:
Lets say, hypothecially, that communists were -10000, socialists -1000, green party -100… so all on the left… now if the democrats were -1, and the GOP were +1, then the democrats would be on the left, and the GOP on the right, but the democrats would be more similar in general to the GOP than they would any of the other parties on the left. Doesnt change the fact they are on the left. On a scale from 1-100, I see the GOP about 80. I see the dems about a 70. Dem socialists about 50, socialists about 20. Greens come in at about 30 maybe? Anything to the right of Saunders, at 50, is ‘right wing.’ Anything to the left of him is ‘left wing.’
Thats an odd scale being one-sided to represent a two dimensional property…. in this scale 1 represents “the least X” and 100 represents “the most X” what is X?. A single magnitude scale makes no sense when talking about a binary unbounded spectrum.
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Nope, lets use the analogy to show why.
I am just going to pick arbitrary numbers they dont represent where I think these parties fall on the left-right spectrum. They are just to illustrate a point:
Lets say, hypothecially, that communists were -10000, socialists -1000, green party -100… so all on the left… now if the democrats were -1, and the GOP were +1, then the democrats would be on the left, and the GOP on the right, but the democrats would be more similar in general to the GOP than they would any of the other parties on the left. Doesnt change the fact they are on the left. On a scale from 1-100, I see the GOP about 80. I see the dems about a 70. Dem socialists about 50, socialists about 20. Greens come in at about 30 maybe? Anything to the right of Saunders, at 50, is ‘right wing.’ Anything to the left of him is ‘left wing.’
Thats an odd scale being one-sided to represent a two dimensional property…. in this scale 1 represents “the least X” and 100 represents “the most X” what is X?. A single magnitude scale makes no sense when talking about a binary unbounded spectrum.
Free Idealist (npub187k…ra34) npub10ey0pzgherzrtmu7nnp4ctyfwmkmk4rwx6jd9sawme5jme8k3rxq50yx0s (npub10ey…yx0s) npub1nqzzvvr02rm8eqqamu6u403a584ljdtuh0uwdqzdl5maxjn880nss7838y (npub1nqz…838y)