At 10:38 PM 7/4/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>But seriously, where exactly should I place the libertarians and liberals
>in the US political spectrum? Somehow I had the idea that libertarians were
>left-of-center, but from your post I get the idea that they are extremely
>right-winged.
Libertarians are social liberals and extreme fiscal conservatives.
Since most American political specturms use an economic axis, they are
usually placed on the far-right of the American spectrum.
On a moral values spectrum, however, they would map near liberal Democrats.
JDG
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