Mapping the Political Spectrum
My friend and Energion author Elgin Hushbeck and Larissa Munz (audiobook creator) recently spoke about the political spectrum and some of the difficulties with political labels in a two-part series on their podcast, Into the Desert.
There are those who complain about labeling and wish to live in a world without labels. But communication requires labels. The problem comes in when labels are either vague and confusing or even intentionally used as weapons rather than as a means of communication.
I appreciate this approach. As with all systems, there are weaknesses, but I find their division much more useful than any of the common ways these terms are used.
I think the real difficulty is not with labels, carefully applied, but with name-calling, which is really not labeling, but mislabeling.
Some of Elgin’s Books
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