Wheels within wheels.

[Eric the Green]

(07-12-2019, 07:32 PM)Hintergrund Wrote: What about this categorisation? Social Conservatives; Progressives; Libertarians; Populists/Fascists.

That's basically the axis of the political compass, and the Libertarian Party grid, if Libertarian and Progressive are considered to be about economic issues, and you delete the word "populist" (which today usually just incorrectly refers to right-wing fascists), and see that these fascists are equivalent to social conservative, and add the social libertarian category opposite to the fascists.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

Social conservative vs. social libertarian is on the up/down scale.
Economic libertarian conservative vs. economic progressive is the other scale, and is placed on the right and the left.


On the Libertarian Party's Nolan grid, the same scales apply, but they refer to quadrants instead, and they put themselves at the top. Different terms apply to the axis, which are equal to the quadrants on the political compass. The social scale is renamed the "personal freedom" scale.

Libertarian vs. Statist is on one scale, up vs. down.
Liberal vs. Conservative is the other, left vs. right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart

In mikebert's terrms, red and blue today adequately measure the conservative vs. liberal axis on the Nolan Grid. There's no need for any adjustment.

The Gray vs. Blue conflict in the Civil War era was a bit different. The Democratic Party shifted twice, first in the 1890s, when the Democrats became economic socialists and populists, and thus blue, and the Republicans defended capitalist priviledge, which today is colored red (ironically). That shift continues in effect today.

But the Democrats had been the party of slavery, and the gray color, equivalent to today's red, and in the 1960s they shifted and became the blue party on social and racial issues. The southern Democrats therefore left the party and became social conservative Republicans instead at that time, and red, and this shift has increased and remains in effect today.