For anyone out there who considers themselves a progressive I'm curious, do you see yourself as a conservative, liberal, or moderate who happens to also be #progressive?

@freemo progressive conservative? lol wut

@debbie I know about a dozen progressive conservatives personally, about as many progressive liberals.

@freemo  https://www.politicalcompass.org/

@js290 @freemo I don't like this political compass. It has at least one false dichotomy (left-right)

@js290 @freemo I once saw something like this. Much more accurate

@sandfox @freemo   social freedoms are not orthogonal to economic freedoms

@js290 @freemo true because for example economic freedoms make you more independent and grant you some social freedoms almost automatically (but not the other way around). Also this "practical" spectrum should not be so symmetrical because for the reason above, left wing goes authoritarian much earlier and easier

Nevertheless this compass has much less paradoxes. It explains why both extremes of the spectrum feel like exactly same grade of shit by placing commies and nazis together. It also lacks such strange paradox as "socialist libertarian"

@sandfox @freemo Libertarian Socialism? Sheldon Richman | @SheldonRichman@twitter.com https://c4ss.org/content/32398

@js290 @freemo I understand that there may be libertarian socialists but their faith is irrational. Any non-market economy will require a center of power which will be essentially a form of government. And as any socialist state on practice shows us, it will be quite oppressive