2011-03-25

Political Ideology

From Kevin, the five worldviews, according to Michael Lind via Salon.com.

Contrast that with the list of political ideologies on Wikipedia. Of course a worldview isn't the same thing, but the two are intricately related.

The categories that Lind postulates are gross caricatures of each faction, e.g. "libertarian isolationism"—which is really just don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong. I suppose the point was to get everyone up in arms, but at least he gets it right that the world views of Bush, Clinton, and Obama are one and the same, which he terms "neoliberal globalism".

Still, it's abundantly clear that we "can't all just get along"—there will always be conflict where humans deal with one another.

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