Re: The Energumen Political Spectrum!


Energumen wrote:
AlanG wrote:
On 30 Apr 2006 06:28:44 -0700, "Energumen"
<energoumenos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Based on the principal component analysis work at
http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/
the blogosphere concepts of Tranzism and Idiotarianism, as well as my
own embellishments from experience I now present the Energumen
Political Spectrum (tm)!

http://i1.tinypic.com/wth9hd.jpg

It's unreadable.
I suggest a change of font

Too big to all fit in one window.

If using Internet Explorer click on the "Expand to regular size button"
on the bottom right that comes up when you hover over it. If using
Firefox just left click once on the image. The "shadowing" is from
converting from a bitmap to a jpg - not a font issue.


Here are the four quadrants anyway:

QUADRANT 1 (top right):
Pro national autonomy and anti transnational bodies
Crime is the fault of the criminal, not social conditions - "hang em
and flog em"
Anti-immigration - ethnic make-up of countries should be left as they
are
Anti-Islamism - tends to believe reform of Islamic countries is
difficult if not impossible
Pro free markets and anti central planning
Favourable view of America
Favourable view of Israel
No antisemitic tendancies

QUADRANT 2 (bottom right):
Pro national autonomy and anti transnational bodies
Crime is the fault of the criminal, not social conditions - "hang em
and flog em"
Anti-immigration - ethnic make-up of countries should be left as they
are
Tendancies towards sympathy for Islamist terrorism - "America had it
coming"
Anti free markets and pro central planning
Anti-American
Anti-Israel
Antisemitic tendancies - "Zionists control the White House"

QUADRANT 3 (bottom left):
The nation state will eventually whither away - nationalism causes wars
Crime is caused by social conditions - we must understand that if we
are to deal with it effectively
Pro immigration - multicultural societies can and must work -
globalisation makes them inevitable
Tendancies towards sympathy for Islamist terrorism - "America had it
coming"
Anti free markets and pro central planning
Anti-American
Anti-Israel
Antisemitic tendancies - "Zionists control the White House"

QUADRANT 4 (top left):
The nation state will eventually whither away - nationalism causes wars
Crime is caused by social conditions - we must understand that if we
are to deal with it effectively
Pro immigration - multicultural societies can and must work -
globalisation makes them inevitable
Anti Islamism - while it may be difficult, Islamic societies will
inevitably reform
Pro free markets and anti central planning
Favourable view of America
Favourable view of Israel
No antisemitic tendancies


I've numbered the quadrants but I might like to think up names for
them. Any suggestions are welcome. As for archetypal extreme examples,

Quadrant 1: Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders
Quadrant 2: Jean Marie Le Pen, David Duke
Quadrant 3: George Galloway, Robert Fisk, Yvonne Ridley
Quadrant 4: ??

Can anyone think of good extreme examples for quadrant 4? I can think
of plenty of people who would fit somewhere in the quadrant, possibly
even Tony Blair, but none of the ones that spring immediately to mind
seem extreme enough to be illustrative of the quadrant.

You can take the original test to see where you fall relative to the UK
population at,
http://www.politicalsurvey2005.com/scripts/quiz

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