Ever wonder why the left & the right can never agree on anything?

[housewolf]

Here's why









http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-right-us/

[Tunkamerica]

1. 54% support gay rights? maybe in the uk.

[Incitatus]

2. 54% of the left. Yes, at least

[RandomThoughts]

3. Interesting poster. Lots of good thoughts on the differences in there.

I think there is another group also. People that are on on one side in there heart, but on the other side by lack of knowledge. I know some people that are like the liberal in heart, but like the conservative in action and thought, and they don't know that they do it.

For instance, wanting to 'make someone' a certain way, or to 'make them think' a certain way, is a form of need of control, and many times coercion is used also in those things some do. Yet they do them for caring reasons. If you want people to think like you do, then you get a more comforting feeling that you might be correct. There is a 'community effect' in conservationism also, but it is based on the individual trying to make people like them.

For instance the conservative often talks about 'the individual' but then wants people to be like them. So I think by individual, it is not a concept of 'being an individual' for everyone, but more about 'being like what they think an individual' should be. So there societal view can be societal but only if the type of society that matches there 'individual' thought.

Also there could be a couple concepts in there about 'need for control' versus 'comfortable with diversity'


Not sure if that makes sense, but 'the individual' is actually a liberal concept also, the conservative version is 'the individual just like they are' making their 'societal view' based on themselves. Although that is not always the libertarian, more the authoritarian conservative.


Does the make sense?


It is comforting when people agree with you, much easier in life to have people confirm you are right, then to be willing to stake out on a best figured path, knowing you could be wrong, and knowing people on other paths could be correct. That seems to be difficult for conservatives sometimes.


So probably should have 'needing to be sure' and 'making other people like you, so you can feel you are correct' on the conservative side. And 'not being sure or judgmental about people on the liberal side'

[progressoid]

4. That's a little simplistic.

[Towlie]

5. I think it was written by a right-winger because a lot of it is just plain wrong.

If "communist" appears on the left, why doesn't "fascist" appear on the right?

"Left focus: society, right focus: individual", is wrong. Left focus should be individual and right focus should be corporations.

I'd also like to see "thinks torture is evil" vs. "Thinks torture is okay", "favors arguments that are sensible and truthful" vs. "favors Glenn Beck", "rejects what doesn't make sense" vs, rejects what might hurt profits" and "knows how to spell" vs. "wasn't paying attention."

I could go on, but suffice it to say that this represents one person's rather unconventional view of the differences between ideologies, and hardly merits being displayed on a poster.

[notesdev]

6. That's a pretty picture

Now here's the ugly reality: