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by natecavanaugh 3209 days ago
>It is not true that the Left is more liberal. They are more socialist, which is simply not listed in these article's diagrams.

Ever since I first found the Nolan chart[1], I've always tried to tell people about it, but I think the reason why the distinction doesn't make a ton of sense is because reducing 4 dimensions to 2 will always be lossy, so something is going to get lost. There may be a lot more ways to slice this pie, but the quadrants seem to me to strike the right balance of pragmatism and descriptiveness.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart