Do you agree with this chart?

[Verily]

No. Political Compass has this delusional idea that the political center is somewhere pretty far to the libertarian left. American politics belongs marginally in the upper right, but when they place most or all of the major parties of every country in the authoritarian right, you do have to wonder.

[Verily]

you're all forgetting, the center on the chart isn't the American center, it's the global center

So every single government in the EU is right of center, and the vast majority are more authoritarian than average? Right...

[Verily]

you're all forgetting, the center on the chart isn't the American center, it's the global center

So every single government in the EU is right of center, and the vast majority are more authoritarian than average? Right...

of course they are.  they all have market economies.

*Snort*

So, any capitalism at all is right-wing? That doesn't strike me as representing the global center when there are about five countries in the world without market economies.

[Verily]

mixed economies are inherently right-wing, yes.  the world has moved to the right over the pass hundred years.  the paradigm doesn't shift through time, only the components do.

So, then, it does not reflect the global center, but rather the left-wing idealist's idea of what the global center looked like a hundred years ago. (And if you think the world economy is to the right of where it was in the Gilded Age, I have nothing else to say.)