@lwdallas The American version of the far right seem to identify with the Republican Party. The European version has them forming coalitions with the conservative, Christian democrat and liberal parties in order to push the labour party out. They never seem to form coalitions with the left, and they are often anti-tax and anti-regulation, which would place them quite squarely on the right wing.

@thor ah you changed you’re scale there

@lwdallas Eh?

@xrevan86 Per that criterion, I'm really far left. Pretty sure I'm not, though. 😉

@thor It's just that your scheme shifted the Left, and I kind of fell for it :-).

@thor Everyone on the Internet has very different perceptions about what's the Left (and Social Justice), what's the Right, how it all ties in and whether it's even a valid way of looking at political opinions.
And because of that I'm not even sure if my perception ties in with the classical perceptions of them :-/.

@xrevan86 The capitalist-socialist axis still holds. So does the authoritarian-libertarian axis. That's four quadrants. Add to that a nationalist-globalist axis. That's eight octants (corners of a three-dimensional coordinate system). Leftists voting for populist right wingers is easy to explain in this model: They align on nationalism, not necessarily the other things. No one expects a political candidate to be perfectly aligned with them, so one prioritises.

@xrevan86 What's trickier is the calibration. It's not quite the same in Europe as in America. America shifts the whole capitalist-socialist scale to the right. I'm told that Obama would be center-right according to the European scale.

@thor "nationalist-globalist" is a bit fuzzy still. One man's globalism is another's imperialism.