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Dear Green Friends, 

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<a href="http://www.opednews.com/author/author8711.html">
Scott McLarty</a>, Green Party U.S. Media Coordinator,
posted a Facebook link to an interactive web site known as
<a href="http://www.politicalcompass.org/"><b>Political Compass</b></a>.
According to Scott, the site returned these scores based on his reply to
 a battery of multiple choice questions:
"Economic Left/Right: -7.12; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05, 
which places me in the lower left corner of the chart (slightly more 
libertarian than left)."

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I was not surprised Scott's results were similar to mine. People at <a href="http://www.politicalcompass.org/"><b>Political Compass</b></a>
strongly believe the old one-dimensional "Left vs Right" model for describing political
parties is obsolete.  They believe the model should include a
"Libertarian vs. Authoritarian" dimension with four quarants for "Libertarian Left",
"Libertarian Right", "Authoritarian Left", and "Authoritarian Right." Hence, the
depiction of the 2008 presidential candidates posted on the
<a href="http://www.tressugar.com/Where-Im-Clicking-Now-Political-Compass-1599201">
TrèsSugar Web Site</a>.
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<a href="http://www.tressugar.com/Where-Im-Clicking-Now-Political-Compass-1599201">
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I agree. Indeed, I'd go further for two reasons.
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First, the conflict between so-called conservative Republicans and so-called
liberal Democrats in the U.S. doesn't even make sense along the old
"Left-Right" dimension, since both are clustered in the "Authoritarian Right"
quadrant. The only difference is demagoguery. Republicans use Big Government
authoritarianism supposedly to serve hard-working, taxpaying,
Christian "Whites" in "middle-class" neighborhoods.
Democrats use Big Government authoritarianism supposedly to serve that
70% of Californians labeled "minorities" including, allegedly lazy,
welfare-dependent, savage "Blacks" like my family and me in the "ghetto."
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Second, I am convinced the growing conflict between stand patters for "Gray"
industry and innovators for "Green" industry constitutes a third dimension.
And it's along this third dimension where the great 21st Century political
struggles are forming.
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The irrelevance and divisiveness of the phony debate between
so-called conservative Republicans and so-called liberal Democrats
is why I plead for Greens, Libertarians, and all other serious independents
to quit propping up the One-Party-With-2-Names by framing our dissent with
old clichés, slogans, and stereotypes.
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Read more to see the "Political Compass" test prologue.  Check it out, take the test,
then post a comment on my blog at <em>California Greening:</em>
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<a href="http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2011/08/3d-politics-political-compass-and.html">
http://cagreening.blogspot.com/2011/08/3d-politics-political-compass-and.html
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3t6pze4">
http://tinyurl.com/3t6pze4
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