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The left–right political spectrum is a system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties, with emphasis placed upon issues of social equality and social hierarchy. In addition to positions on the left and on the right, there are centrist and moderate positions, which are not strongly aligned with either end of the spectrum.
The Pournelle chart has liberty on one axis, with those on the left seeking freedom from control or protections for social deviance and those on the right emphasizing state authority or protections for norm enforcement (farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil").
On the other hand, Owen Prell, a founding member of Unite America, formerly The Centrist Project, [26] contends that the Nolan Chart is a definite improvement on the more primitive single-axis left-right political continuum, but that it better serves the cause of political centrism. [27] [28]
Political ideology in the United States is usually described with the left–right spectrum. Liberalism is the predominant left-leaning ideology and conservatism is the predominant right-leaning ideology. [96] [97] Those who hold beliefs between liberalism and conservatism or a mix of beliefs on this scale are called moderates.
The economic (left–right) axis measures one's opinion of how the economy should be run. [1] In economic terms, the political left is defined as the desire for the economy to be run by a cooperative collective agency, which can mean a sovereign state but also a network of communes , while the political right is defined as the desire for the ...
Left and right can agree on at least two. Dan Gainor. December 29, 2024 at 8:00 AM. The year is ending and, shockingly, it was filled with less drama than most people predicted. Self included.
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Left-hand–right-hand activity chart is an illustration that shows the contributions of the right and left hands of a worker and the balance of the workload between ...