The Political Spectrum

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The Political Spectrum Aim: What is the Political Spectrum and where do you fall on the political spectrum? Do Now: Are you a Democrat, Republican, Independent, or other? Why?

Less Gov’t More Freedom Population of United States Do Now: Take a Political Spectrum Survey. You have 5 minutes. Political Spectrum Government More Gov’t Less Freedom Less Gov’t More Freedom SCORING 10 = Ultra Conservative 15 = Conservative 20 = Moderate 25 = Liberal 30 = Ultra Liberal Totalitarian Total Gov’t Control Anarchy No Gov’t Control Center Moderate Little of Both Left/Right Center Left Center Right Today’s Liberal Today’s Conservative Left Right Today’s Democrat Today’s Republican Population of United States Radical Change Radical Change

Less Gov’t More Freedom Population of United States Political Spectrum Government More Gov’t Less Freedom Less Gov’t More Freedom Totalitarian Total Gov’t Control Anarchy No Gov’t Control Center Moderate Little of Both Left/Right Center Left Center Right Today’s Liberal Today’s Conservative Left Right Today’s Democrat Today’s Republican Radicals Reactionary Population of United States Radical Change Radical Change

Obama speaks about “Spreading the wealth around” Obama speaks about the “government option”

Reagan speaks about “Government not being the solution but the problem” New Gengrich speaks about “People create jobs, not government”

Occupy Wall Street NYC Occupy Chicago

Where our Leaders past/present fall on the Political Spectrum Sec. Hillary Clinton Gov. Mitt Romney Sen. John McCain President Clinton President Bush President Obama Rep. Ron Paul