The GREEN-Centered Full Spectrum

As I mentioned when discussing the PURPLE-centered spectrum, the art of politics consists in framing an issue so that your own position is the point where everyone else will end up in a compromise. The standard left-right framing of political conflicts implicitly empowers anyone who can reasonably claim the center.

Like the governing establishment, the liberty movement works hard to maintain a reputation as a centrist position. The image below is the COLOR Spectrum that most closely matches the way libertarians prefer to frame the left-right continuum. From left to right it goes PURPLE-BLUE, BLUE, DENIM, AQUA, GREEN, YELLOW, ORANGE, RED, RED-PURPLE. This way of framing politics privileges the GREEN liberty position and attempts to marginalize anyone with more than a hint of PURPLE as essentially totalitarian. During periods when this way of looking at politics dominates, GREEN is the logical rallying point for big-tent independence and liberation movements.