Episode 203 There is no binary 'political spectrum' (transcript)

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. Today is Monday, March 24th. We just got past the first day of spring, after which we had a nice snowfall here in Western New York, as is usual. And of course we always get one in April. Right, right. When you've been, doing things outside, maybe wearing your shorts a few days, but then you get the snowfall. I don't mean like a few flakes that melt when they hit the ground. You'll get the ground covered with a at least a few inches of snow. And then you just want to drive your car off the peace bridge when that's when that happens.

But right now we've got some nice weather and some cold weather coming our way, but I know you didn't tune in for a Western New York weather report. [00:01:00] And what I want to talk about today is a little bit about political philosophy and while that might not seem topical at the moment I think it is it's actually long overdue in my opinion.

And something that I've wanted to talk. About for a while, and I think it's a good time now that we've had kind of a shift in American politics and somewhat of a what people perceive as a swing toward the right. I think that's probably accurate. But I wanted to address this idea of the political spectrum, which I don't think exists.

I do not think that politics can all be explained and political. Movements can all be explained along some binary spectrum, where at the far right is very conservative. And at the far left would be very liberal and I guess socialist or [00:02:00] communist. And that everybody else falls somewhere in the middle and particularly libertarianism.