goy,
I actually agree with everything you are saying, but I’m going to ponder dropping the circle analogy for future use if it causes this much contention. I used the circle analogy not because I disagree with you, but because I think it is a better way to represent all of the exact same things you are saying. My point in mentioning a circle is to oppose the Leftist lie that they are offering us the opposite of fascism when in fact they dish out the same thing.
You seem upset about the circle concept because you are taking it as indicative of a squishy, throw-your-hands-up moral equivocation. I’ve been using a circle so that there is a spatial way to position liberal pluralistic democracy as the opposite of BOTH Leftism and Rightism.
You are saying that the “circular” spectrum fuels the lie that the right and left are opposites. I have been suggesting that the “linear” spectrum does the same thing. A typical leftist will have you believe that the further left you let them take you, the further you are from totalitarianism.
Like I said, I’ll drop the circle thing if it causes this much contention. I think that those of us who value freedom, peace, and representative democracy (ie, those of us who are “conservative”, these days) have got a huge fight coming, and I don’t want to waste energy on arguments with allies.
