Quote Originally Posted by Rex54 View Post


Fiscal conservatives and social liberals are the bottom right quadrant.....
Fascinating, I knew us libertarians (be responsible with money federally, but live and let live personally) were rare, but it's crazy how rare. I feel it's the only ideology that is sustainable and lets everyone be happy. Cramming down rules on others means the Gov't has a lot of power, which means as soon as the "other" side wins you're now being forced to live a lifestyle you don't want. OR, we lift the Feds powers to oppress us and live however you want.

The graph shows 4 other interesting things to me: 1) Liberals truly are extremists in their views, 2) Liberals don't have diversity of thought, 3) R's don't really have a cohesive economic view. And 4), look at the left-right axis ends. +.5 (conservative economically) seems to have literally 1/50th the support -.5 (liberal) policies get. Wonder if that's the graph makers not defining true moderate correctly, or indicative of Americans saying "national debt? Never heard of her".

I think R's freaked out about Obama spending saying it would cause inflation and national debt would cripple us, then when it didn't do either many Americans -falsely, in my opinion- got the impression that no about of spending or debt was a problem.