{"id":21402,"date":"2025-01-08T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21402"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:55:46","slug":"breaking-free-from-political-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2025\/01\/08\/breaking-free-from-political-polarization\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Free from Political Polarization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There have been many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternatives<\/a> to the classic \u201cpolitical compass\u201d. Bruce Pardy from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=1644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Institute for Economic Research<\/a> discusses just such an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-Vegf4ydHM&amp;t=1559s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alternate view<\/a> to the more familiar political compass, or simple Left\/Right graph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-Vegf4ydHM?si=yPIF0cPngXo2esvV\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Your humble author does not wholeheartedly agree, but it is a diffeent take worth musing over and discussing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/political-horseshoe-circle-aier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/political-horseshoe-circle-aier.jpg 604w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/political-horseshoe-circle-aier-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Breaking Free from Political Polarization?\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"There have been many alternatives to the classic 'political compass'.  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Bruce Pardy from the American Institute for Economic Research discusses just such an alternate view to the more familiar political compass, or simple Left\/Right graph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[19,15,33,24,82],"class_list":["post-21402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-communism","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-leviathan","tag-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21409,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions\/21409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}