1. Look at the cartoon.
2. Find and focus on the main purpose.
3. Find the entertainment.
4. Understand the drawing.
5. Look for recognized symbols.
6. Find humorous details.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Test
About The Political Compass™
In the introduction, we explained the inadequacies of the traditional left-right line.
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If we recognise that this is essentially an economic line it's fine, as far as it goes. We can show, for example, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, with their commitment to a totally controlled economy, on the hard left. Socialists like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist position. Margaret Thatcher would be well over to the right, but further right still would be someone like that ultimate free marketeer, General Pinochet.
That deals with economics, but the social dimension is also important in politics. That's the one that the mere left-right scale doesn't adequately address. So we've added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian.
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Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitrary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period
You can also put Pinochet, who was prepared to sanction mass killing for the sake of the free market, on the far right as well as in a hardcore authoritarian position. On the non-socialist side you can distinguish someone like Milton Friedman, who is anti-state for fiscal rather than social reasons, from Hitler, who wanted to make the state stronger, even if he wiped out half of humanity in the process.
The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy)
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The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples social Darwinian right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.
In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 0.25
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How this group compares to the rest of the country on key issues …
Hard-Pressed Democrats
General Public
Key Beliefs of Hard-Pressed Democrats versus the General Public
- Government is almost always wasteful and inefficient
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 68%
- General Public 55%
- Business corporations make too much profit
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 79%
- General Public 54%
- The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 60%
- General Public 41%
- Our country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 62%
- General Public 45%
- Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 76%
- General Public 44%
- I often don't have enough money to make ends meet
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 68%
- General Public 43%
- It is necessary to believe in God in order to be moral and have good values
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 75%
- General Public 48%
- This country can't solve many of its important problems
- Hard-Pressed Democrats 48%
- General Public 37%
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Start-up 10/16/13
1. Yes, I am highly against bullying I have had two friends get bullied and hurt themselves, I am so against this they should be charged and face life in prison, basically because they murdered her, just with indirectly ways.
2. Misdemeanors are punishable by more substantial fines and sometimes jail time, usually less than one year, Felonies are the most serious type of crime and are often classified by degrees, with a first degree felony being the most serious.
3. I think the padal should come back into school, and for the slightest remark, wack, USE THE ROD, DISCIPLINE THE CHILD.
1. Yes, I am highly against bullying I have had two friends get bullied and hurt themselves, I am so against this they should be charged and face life in prison, basically because they murdered her, just with indirectly ways.
2. Misdemeanors are punishable by more substantial fines and sometimes jail time, usually less than one year, Felonies are the most serious type of crime and are often classified by degrees, with a first degree felony being the most serious.
3. I think the padal should come back into school, and for the slightest remark, wack, USE THE ROD, DISCIPLINE THE CHILD.
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