I Designed The Best Political Spectrum

[Daniel Balan]

I realized that I misplaced Donald Trump, he must be near the Centre of the Authoritarian world and Nazi germany and Putin's fascist Russia must be at the far right of that spectrum

[Daniel Balan]

@Leo Gura @Alexop @Schizophonia I fine tuned my model. Check it out. 

[Yimpa]

What app did you use to make this model?

[Daniel Balan]

Just now, Yimpa said:

What app did you use to make this model?

Paint :))))))

 

[Daniel Balan]

@Leo Gura Hi Leo, How do you square with the fact that the successor of the so called progressive USSR is now probably the most conservative country on earth? Why far right fascist republicans from the US move into Russia if you say that Russia's former iteration, the USSR was not conservative. How do you square with the fact that 80% of Russian citizens that were once staunch communists now support the president that turned Russia in one of the most conservative countries on earth? 

I really want to hear that from you.

 

[Basman]

Something as complex as politics is necessarily going to lose some of it's nuance when you try to illustrate it as a simple diagram. You can minimize that by making a more complex diagram but at the cost of readability, but the beauty of simplistic political diagrams is that you can instantly understand the message (whether or not it is accurate is a different discussion). 

Your diagram lacks readability. That there are two lefts and rights is confusing. You could experiment with colors to enhance readability. I'd also consider experimenting more with different kinds of graphs, like perhaps a circle or a branching tree better illustrates political compasses, etc. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Basman

[Daniel Balan]

12 minutes ago, Basman said:

Something as complex as politics is necessarily going to lose some of it's nuance when you try to illustrate it as a simple diagram. You can minimize that by making a more complex diagram but at the cost of readability, but the beauty of simplistic political diagrams is that you can instantly understand the message (whether or not it is accurate is a different discussion). 

Your diagram lacks readability. That there are two lefts and rights is confusing. You could experiment with colors to enhance readability. I'd also consider experimenting more with different kinds of graphs, like perhaps a circle or a branching tree better illustrates political compasses, etc. 

There are 2 lefts and 2 rights because my graph presents 2 totally different worlds. Liberal and Conservative are 2 totally different ways of perceiving the world, not just politics. And with my graph I wanted to really hammer the point home about that duality.

[Daniel Balan]

@Basman also please read every post I made under this thread, because the graph lacks readabily, thats why I've gone above and beyond to explain it in my posts here.

[Basman]

11 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

There are 2 lefts and 2 rights because my graph presents 2 totally different worlds. Liberal and Conservative are 2 totally different ways of perceiving the world, not just politics. And with my graph I wanted to really hammer the point home about that duality.

That wasn't obvious. Here you could for example use two different colors to make the distinction more clear. 

[Basman]

Readability is how well you can understand something clearly and intuitively without user error. The better the readability, the harder it is to stray from the intended design.

[Daniel Balan]

@Basman Agreed, thanks for the feedback.

[BlueOak]

The political compass does this better because its not trying to cram it all into one axis.

Where do status quo or radical centrists sit? In between the two?

Honestly, even if you disagree with it, try using 4 it'll read easier. Respect though for mapping you ideology or opinion out.
(Or you could split this off into two lines)

Edited 4 hours ago by BlueOak

[Daniel Balan]

19 minutes ago, BlueOak said:

The political compass does this better because its not trying to cram it all into one axis.

Where do status quo or radical centrists sit? In between the two?

Honestly, even if you disagree with it, try using 4 it'll read easier. Respect though for mapping you ideology or opinion out.
(Or you could split this off into two lines)

The bar in the middle means total rupture. There are 2 radical worldviews on each side of the spectrum. One is the liberal worldview with all of its subcategories, the small bar in the middle of each worldview means centrism, and status quo differrs from one society to the other, during the 1930's the status quo was nazism and communism for the ussr.