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Mar. 5, 2013 4:45pm Tiffany Gabbay

FreedomWorks founder Matt Kibbe joined Glenn Beck on Monday evening to delve deeper into the political spectrum and determine where prominent U.S. lawmakers fall in terms of classical liberalism, neoconservatism, socialism, anarcho-capitalism and other political niches.

In fact, when one actually dissects the political compass, there is far more than just left and right and various shades of gray can be found. Where does Paul Ryan, Dr. Ben Carson and other outspoken voices of our time land on the political compass? Watch below as Beck and Kibbe try to determine (sometimes, the choice is not as obvious as it would seem at first blush).

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soybomb315_II
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:13pm
wouldnt this have been a good exercise to do during the REPUBLICAN PRIMARY????

Why the delay, glenn?

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- 00100111
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 9:55am
  That would make too much sense, we can’t be doing that.
  
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- @leftfighter
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 3:13pm
  Or, he didn’t think about it at the time.
  
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JDAZ
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 10:35pm
Unfortunately I think they are completely wrong about Jeff Flake. I used to really think he really was someone I could support but his stance on the border, and some of the other issues really make me question where he really stands. Everytime I hear him talk the more it seems he has been assimilated into the party. When push comes to shove he will vote republican.

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- Strasser
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 12:24am
  Jeff Flake, my former House Representative, appears to me to have become nothing but a lapdog for McCain after joining the Senate. A major disappointment so far, and I won’t be patient for much longer. If he doesn’t shape up and start leading like a conservative, then I surely won’t support him as “Arizona’s senior Senator” after McCain is sent to the glue factory in 2016..
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:36pm
Depends on the issue…I find it difficult to pin point people as this or that…over time a person can change but some of those on the board, have hardened hearts.

Either way, we all know it eventually comes to an end…Obama did a number on the nation…and for that I will never forgive or forget.

He makes Jimmy Bob Carter look like a Prince. I hear Carter is doing back flips…pulled out of the ditch and replaced by Obama.

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The Big Mick
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:15pm
This Fascinates me.
I consider this to be THE Most Interesting and IMPORTANT thread on the Site, and yet only 12 of us are engaging the ideas here.

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- SamIamTwo
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:32pm
  Some of us have a life other than GB and I did see it the other day on ROKU.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:31pm
  Big Mick,
  too much thought….not many people are that interested in actually learning – thats why these stories are few and far between
  
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banjarmon
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:30pm
This is another short quiz one to see where you are politically…

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:07pm
  Looks to me they scored me about where Friedman was.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:08pm
  Libertarian. Live and let live, just don’t make me have to watch to crash and burn or expect me to clean up the mess or pay for same.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:11pm
  says I’m a Libertarian, Banjo.
  I call myself The World’s Only Know, Self-Proclaimed, Theistic Anarchist.
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 8:25pm
  80/90 libertarian here..
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:25pm
  Shhh, don’t tell the bots I was 90% libertarian. Then I can’t screw with them as much…
  Hadn’t seen that-the smallest political test ever site before.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:50pm
  Here’s a shocker, I was 100% / 100% Libertarian. I imagine there’s a host more questions, especially regarding foreign affairs and ABC agencies that could be added for accuracy though. Of course, that’s not even including that many die hard libertarians believe that immigration is a natural right.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:35pm
  the majority of americans are actually libertarian but they get tricked by the corrupt political system
  
  lots of libertarians are nonvoters (easy to see why)…..libertarians who think they are democrats…..libertarians who think they are republicans
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 9:57am
  100% Libertarian, but I knew that already.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:22pm
Try this test and see where you stand…

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:12pm
  huh, I thought the reply that’s up one should have been here.
  Anyway they had me at Friedman’s spot.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on March 6, 2013 at 2:09am
  They say I’m a far left libertarian. In fact, I’m so far left and so libertarian that they couldn’t give an example of a real politician with comparable views. Draw an arrow from the center through the Dalai Lama and keep going til you’re just three squares from the leftmost edge – that’s me.
  
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The Big Mick
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:11pm
I’ve rejected the whole LINEAR Political Spectrum. My model, borrowed from L.Neil Smith, a Libertarian SciFi author, is a CONE with Anarchism–rule by NONE–at the Top and Various Flavors of Tyranny around the circle at the bottom. Fascism and Communism right next to each other, being Collectivist Statist Socialist Twins in Practice (see F. Hayek). Dictatorships like Sodem and North Korea, Absolute Monarchies. In some ways I make no distinctions between the Dictatorship of a Castro, Stalin or Mao, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and the Dictatorship of the One Vote Over 50%.

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GoodStuff
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:51pm
Hey Glenn, the far right of the spectrum is called “anarcho-libertarianism” not anarcho-capitalism.

Good grief.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:50pm
  wiki says their synonymous, GS. You don’t think so? How to you define each and contrast them?
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 7:14pm
  Good. I would say my Libertarian Model-er L.Neil Smith seems to be an Anarcho-Libertarian or Anarcho-Capitalist.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:36pm
  we can just call it ‘ron paul kook” territory and make everyone happy
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:50pm
So Glenn is finally put the right on the right, and the left on the left. About time.

After last weeks shows, I was starting to wonder whether Beck knew his left from right.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:41pm
  depends what the horizontal axis is…..Common sense tells you the axis should be “government control” and then the question is whether 0% is on the left or the right….As customary, 0% should be on the left and increasing to 100% on the right….That puts anarchy on the left end and totalitarian on the right end
  
  The modern day interpretation of “left versus right” is erroneous, which should not surprise anyone around here
  
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Verceofreason
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:42pm
When did Dr Carson become a lawmaker?

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- glegakis
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:33pm
  Agreed. And since they had the talkies up there where was Hannity, Levin and of course Palin.
  
  Also I think O’reilly was too far right on that board. He’s great on abortion but weak on gun rights. Quality
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:44pm
  That’s what we need Gil, a 5 or 10 point check list.
  Gun Rights, Smaller Government, Entitlements, Health Care, Regulation, Energy, Military, Foreign Policy, etc, that we can gage each one against.
  
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marybethelizabeth
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:39pm
Last Friday Glenn Beck said he was reading something he wrote in an e-mail saying he thought that sending representatives to Washington wasn’t working and that he had no trust in politicians and only trusted the people.
This went past the familiar previous statement that a person sells his soul when elected. It was a denunciation of representative democracy.

All that previous talk about restoring the constitution is now out the window.

Mr. Beck’s John Bircher trained inner fascist emerges more and more each day.

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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:26pm
  ROFL.
  So Mark Twain is a “Bircher”? “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it.”
  
  To reject THIS Out of Control, Out of Touch, (and Arrogant as He ll about BOTH) Legislature and Administration is NOT to “denounce representative democracy”. Indeed, the last time we had a bunch of Ruling Class Aristos THIS Out of Touch, Out of Control and Arrogant we WENT to WAR with em and WHUPPED em. It was called The American Revolution (v1.0), and our Founders were clear that when ANY Government “becomes destructive to these ends” of Securing Our God Endowed Unalienable Individual Liberties, it is the RIGHT and the DUTY of “the people” (doesn’t say how many and the Founders were a 1/3 MINORITY) to THROW IT OFF, to ALTER or ABOLISH it and to Institute New Government.
  So I guess you are arguing George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson were “Birchers”?
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:30pm
  Hi sweetie!
  
  Erah, The Birchers proved to be right. He didn’t say we ought not send politicians to Washington; he said he doesn’t trust them, and current polls indicate that our Country as a whole, does not trust Washington – heck, the Founders taught us not to trust politicians, but to be forever watchful of them. Mr. Beck said Nothing against restoring order to Congress (you can’t restore the Constitution, you can only ‘correct’ those that swear to uphold it, and then break their oath.
  
  Now…what’s for dinner?
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:40pm
  Sorta missed the part where Fascists and Commies are identical, MB?
  By the way “denunciation” “denounce” is SUCH a CommieTerm.
  F. Hayek proved 70 YEARS ago that Fascism and Communism were different sides of the same debased coin. L.Neil Smith and other Libertarian authors did so in the 80s. Tom Wolfe, in the Millenial Issue of Time pointed out that Hitler and Stalin, far from being at Polar Opposites, like YOU imply, were actually Fraternal, if Fratricidal, Collectivist, Statist, Socialist Twins.
  Birch was an ANTI-*** Imperialist and an ANTI-COMMUNIST, neither of those are “Fascist” in fact, quite the Opposite. The Militarist Imperialist Japs WERE Fascist as the 3rd Reich.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:29pm
  Barry Meth, as an astute history buff, did you know old Sammy Clemons served for a week with the Confederates before he beat feet and went all extra awol?
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:38pm
  i would love to know when glenn beck did trust the government and politicians……October 2012? Is it based on the fact that his Mormon horse lost in november, or is it based on the fact that the republican party is just as corrupt and evil as the democrats?
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:11pm
But, where does Obama fall, is it between Anarchist libertarian extremist or Republican moderate communist RINO Socialist?

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:46pm
  not too far from progressive RINO
  
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justangry
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:05pm
Getting there, but Ryan and Rubio deserve no slack at least in terms of civil liberties. I don’t know just how much authoritarian you can get than to deny us the right to due process. There’s a clear line here, that you all are missing.

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- Fubared
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:26pm
  All? Pretty bold statement for everybody, don’t you “think”?
  
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- justangry
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 9:52pm
  All, as those writing the articles and putting Ryan/Rubio on the non-authoritarian side.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:42pm
  lol…..what a nitpick
  
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KMHArms.com
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:56pm
Learning daily, thanks

KMH Arms Team http://www.KMHArms.com
- Keep your power dry

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The Big Mick
Posted on March 5, 2013 at 4:53pm
Some Sign Posts would have helped.
If you want THESE things you fall HERE.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 5:21pm
  Hi The Big Mick,
  
  Did you catch my answer to your question of the day?
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 5, 2013 at 6:04pm
  No. Which thread, Monk. I posted it on a couple of different ones.
  Or you can hit me up here.
  
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