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To: TimF who wrote (337696)	5/17/2007 1:46:26 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574968

Those charts all rely on one specific opinion of where the center is. There isn't anything objective about where the center is. They are true, from the perspective of the person who made them, but nothing more than that. No, they are not the opinion of one person. In the fact, the first chart tells you that it was a professional team that created the chart. And the perspectives of all three charts are very similar. The first chart has some questionable listings. It places all figures on the right as authoritarian which is just silly. As is placing George W Bush in a spot that is more authoritarian then Chirac, and not much less than Arafat. They are on the Authoritarian side but only those people at the very top of the chart [of which there are none]would be considered Authoritarian. That means that Bush has elements found in an Authoritarian but is not considered Authoritarian. The 2nd one I've commented on before. The problem is not as much that it places France at the center (although I would disagree with that as well) but that it sets France's area to be such that you can't be at the center unless you are very like France. Also the idea that France is overall freer then the US isn't a very reasonable one. We are not talking about France's culture but we are talking about its political system. Germany is probably close to the center but Germany is not at all like France culturally. The right has a considerable misconception of France. It is much more conservative then you all think it is. The last one is rather silly as well. With Clinton and even Greenpeace closer to Laissez-faire then Reagan and Bush grouped in with Mussolini. Do you know how to read these charts? Laissez-faire, a French construct btw, sits on the far right of the line labeled Economic Right. That means Bush/Reagan is much more laissez-faire than Clinton, and in turn, Clinton is much more laissez-faire than Greenpeace.