Yeah but the spectrum as pushed and popularly thought of is retarded garbage made up to confuse everyone. The "freedom spectrum" is also not exactly accurate to the original meaning, but is far far closer. The original left and right "wings" were those of pre-revolutionary French parliament. They were still a monarchy at this time, and the right wing wished to preserve the "natural order" of aristocracy, and the left wing wanted to tear down the whole society in the name of "progress." The left were adherents of "progressivism," another oft misunderstood word. The right felt that hierarchy was a naturally emergent phenomenon, from which the aristocracy emerges, and that the inequity it resulted in was an acceptable price for the overall functioning of the society. The left saw inequity as proof that the system was evil, and argued that hierarchy must be abolished to attain equality. The left won that conflict by murdering their opponents, and today Europe is a cesspool of socialist nonsense where the "aristocrats" are far fewer in number and FAR wealthier compared to the common man than even back then, lol. The real "right" is a belief in the natural order, that some people will win, and some will lose, and any attempt to forcibly equalize this will result in disaster. The real "left" is a belief that inequity is evidence of evil, and all force used to correct it is just. Oversimplified, the right believes in freedom at the cost of inequity, and the left believes in equity at the cost of serfdom. So, the freedom spectrum isn't that far off.

Yeah but the spectrum as pushed and popularly thought of is retarded garbage made up to confuse everyone. The "freedom spectrum" is also not exactly accurate to the original meaning, but is far far closer. The original left and right "wings" were those of pre-revolutionary French parliament. They were still a monarchy at this time, and the right wing wished to preserve the "natural order" of aristocracy, and the left wing wanted to tear down the whole society in the name of "progress." The left were adherents of "progressivism," another oft misunderstood word. The right felt that hierarchy was a naturally emergent phenomenon, from which the aristocracy emerges, and that the inequity it resulted in was an acceptable price for the overall functioning of the society. The left saw inequity as proof that the system was evil, and argued that hierarchy must be abolished to attain equality. The left won that conflict by murdering their opponents, and today Europe is a cesspool of socialist nonsense where the "aristocrats" are far fewer in number and FAR wealthier compared to the common man than even back then, lol. The real "right" is a belief in the natural order, that some people will win, and some will lose, and any attempt to forcibly equalize this will result in disaster. The real "left" is a belief that equity is evidence of evil, and all force used to correct it is just. Oversimplified, the right believes in freedom at the cost of inequity, and the left believes in equity at the cost of serfdom. So, the freedom spectrum isn't that far off.