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The political compass is annoying as fuck. Disinformation to make people think they understand politics but they don’t.
Not trying to argue, but do you have another model that works better? I refer to it because it's commonly known and the quick for people to understand and it captures more nuance than "left vs right".
For instance the Khmer Rouge’s communism is vastly different from say Mao Zedongs, yet on the political compass they would be placed in roughly the same spot. This causes massive issues with understanding of these things for the general masses and creates a social influence that is massively idiotic.
That makes sense, thank you for clarifying.
No problem man. You see where I’m coming from here though right?
Yeah I get you, it's more complex than any simple diagram and there's more than 2 dimensions. Totally agreed!
I think understanding that different countries and different styles of politics work differently depending on implementation and historical/ geographical context, and simplifying things on that level causes more problems than it solves and encourages people to not actually learn about how things work.