The Illustrated guide to political ideology

[CptStern]

neat and I think fairly accurate

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Dear god this was so confusing. Dear Americans: Stop depicting the left as blue and the right as red. It messes with my head.

 

[Vigilante]

Dear god this was so confusing. Dear Americans: Stop depicting the left as blue and the right as red. It messes with my head.

How is it confusing?

 

[AJ Rimmer]

How is it confusing?

The entire rest of the world does it the other way around.

 

[15357]

I laughed. So damn true.

The entire rest of the world does it the other way around.

This.

 

[Sulkdodds]

How is it confusing?

The people's flag is deepest red,
it shrouded oft our martyred dead.

 

[The Monkey]

I think I might turn this in as my political science paper instead of writing seven pages about the superiority of proportional election systems above pluralism.

One of them I don't get though; why would the capitalists think that socialism is capitalists stealing socialists' money?

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I think I might turn this in as my political science paper instead of writing seven pages about the superiority of proportional election systems above pluralism.

One of them I don't get though; why would the capitalists think that socialism is capitalists stealing socialists' money?

They're rising up against the evil blue reds for taking all their money?

 

[organizedcrime]

Capitalism by Socialists and Socialism by Capitalists contradict each other - why are rightists doing the threatening in both scenarios?

 

[Raziaar]

Capitalism by Socialists and Socialism by Capitalists contradict each other - why are rightists doing the threatening in both scenarios?

Because they are the gun nuts.

 

[lord_raken]

Capitalism by Socialists and Socialism by Capitalists contradict each other - why are rightists doing the threatening in both scenarios?

Because the guide was made by a liberal..... maybe... or an apathetic cynic.

I think the guide if flawed. Firstly is separates the left and the right when in reality is should demonstrate those with power and those without. And it only displays subjective views not objective views of the system.

 

[Laivasse]

Guys, I don't think the colours are supposed to mean anything. Why would fascism be depicted as a poor minority Right being dominated by a rich Left? That and Monkey's point make it so that a political reading of the colours doesn't make sense...

 

[Stigmata]

Aside from the last one, the colours make perfect sense. "Socialism described by capitalists" made me lol because it works on two levels.

 

[Viperidae]

When I looked all I saw were the money bags and the guns, and it made sense from that perspective.