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February 13, 2005, 11:20am
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<p><a href=“http://politics.abovetopsecret.com/thread102492/pg1[/url] ”>http://politics.abovetopsecret.com/thread102492/pg1</a></p> ;
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To many persons, the political spectrum is characterized by a line drawn between liberal and conservative positions. A question then becomes, are libertarians conservative or liberal? It is a good question. True, libertarians share some ideas in common with both “liberals” and “conservatives.” Some libertarians would answer the question “both”, and others would answer “neither.” To answer the question, we must realize the political spectrum is not a linear scale, but a two-dimensional map. David Nolan, co-founder of the Libertarian Party, developed the “Nolan Chart”, most often seen as the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, which incorporates a second axis depicting the libertarian vs. authoritarian spectrum.
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<p>Source: <a href=“http://brutus.graceland.edu/~farnham/libertarian.html[/url] ”>http://brutus.graceland.edu/~farnham/libertarian.html</a></p> ;
<p>Edit: Last time I checked, anarchy, which falls under the libertarian ideology (though not all libertarians advocate it), is quite a liberal concept. </p>
<p>I will not discuss this issue any further.</p>