Political compass for the21st century

[Bill the Piper]

(11-14-2018, 01:22 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: It is impossible to have fusions along the edges except among adjacent tendencies.  What could an extreme  counter-culture type ever have in common with a nationalist or a traditionalist? Nothing. A counter-culture (purple) can be markedly socialist (share the wealth, man!) or can believe that free enterprise is the sole possible economic vehicle to achievement of personhood (I would guess that many of our high-tech people are there). It is possible to fuse extreme values of capitalism (yellow) with either traditionalism (black) or a counter-culture tendency (purple); maybe the respect for free enterprise goes even to assignment of rights in people as serfs or slaves. The extreme-end yellow-black fusion would be a brutal slave-owning planter (a fictional character like Simon Legree fits there) or feudal lord. Such is largely discredited. Traditionalists can never be socialists or counter-culture people. Nationalists sacrifice the economic freedom of people not in 'their' national community and have no tolerance for any cultural dissidence.    

In the past I toyed with the idea that Christian Democracy is a purple-black or purple-blue fusion, but it's NOT the case. Such a fusion would indeed be impossible. Chr. Dem. is a centrist tendency, which has ideas from all sectors. Their views on war, migration and the environment are purple. Their concern for the working class is red. Their ideas about national unity and solidarity between classes are blue. Their concern for the family is black. Christian Democrats also have a pro-business wing (think Merkel), which is markedly yellow.