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Originally Posted by Spark
As is anarchism, which is a very different ideology.
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Not sure you can even put Anarchism in either left or right in a a organised adminstration context.
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I don't think we should derive the centre from the existence or absence of extremes though.
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Yeah, but then U.S in terms of economic issues in the world context has always been more towards the right. Unless forced towards the left like with the recession.
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It is. Go have a detailed analysis of their economic positions of both parties - especially when it comes to government involvement in the economic workings of their country.
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Was talking about the non economic issues in that paragraph.
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Have a look at standard poli-sci definitions. Obama is definitely centre-right. A genuinely centre-left politician would never have put up the half-baked version of UHC he did.
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Would a more baked version have passed though?
A center to right or even more right politician would never propose that in any case if you look at it that way. A half baked version is still more towards the left than the right.
In any case even a center of left or a centrist politician can take positions sometimes on the right on some issues. And as for Pol SCi definitions i have seen both Obama and Romney being mentioned as Center of right in different sites and news organisation, but i don't see how both are possible.
The fight seems to be for the center or center of right space in the USA right now and everyone wants to portray themselves in that space.