tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31477944598354945002024-03-16T08:22:32.067-07:00Asplund Chartmapping the political spectrumJacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-4722930377789382592016-09-11T09:24:00.001-07:002016-09-11T09:24:41.308-07:00Election 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-66544204632961922962016-09-10T09:42:00.001-07:002016-09-10T09:42:29.445-07:00What COLOR is Hillary Clinton?What COLOR is globalism?<br />
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PURPLE<br />
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Clinton is an insider's insider. She has demonstrated a deep commitment to maintaining or increasing first her personal power, secondarily her patrons' power, and then she might start thinking about her party's or her country's power. With her husband, she's been willing to work with any RED, BLUE or PURPLE who's interested in further concentrating political, economic or social power into their hands. <br />
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While there is fierce and sometimes deadly conflict among factions of the globalist elites, they're all motivated by the same basic proposition:<br />
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"All the worlds eggs should be in one basket."</div>
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The fighting is over who owns the basket. If a few eggs get broken in the process, there's that many more omelets to serve up to their subordinates. And the drama of conflict draws attention away from the innumerable ways globalists cooperate to make sure outsiders aren't permitted to play in any of their games. </div>
Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-86714513743846470042016-02-27T17:10:00.000-08:002016-02-27T17:10:32.782-08:00What COLOR is Donald Trump?What COLOR is nationalism?<br />
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PURPLE-GRAY<br />
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Why do so many REDS and ORANGES and YELLOWS prefer Trump to the other Republican candidates?<br />
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Trump is popular among conservatives simply by being a successful businessman. Nothing succeeds like success and conservatives tend to value results over intentions or procedural justice. The fact that Trump doesn't have to go around begging a bunch of donors for support, also means he's nobody's puppet. Conservatives like to vote for self-made men.<br />
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There's also a large anti-PURPLE sentiment among the ORANGE and YELLOW grassroots of the Republican party. They feel that a PURPLE-GRAY billionaire is more likely to represent their interests than a PURPLE-RED candidate like Rubio. PURPLE-RED elected officials have a tendency to sell out ORANGE and YELLOW interests well before push comes to shove. The PURPLE-RED establishment has been pushing PURPLE-RED candidates down the grassroots' throats every election cycle since Reagan and now the base is revolting. <br />
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There are also a lot of marginally interested voters who are coming out in droves to vote for Trump. He's GRAY enough to appeal to the average people who don't obsess about politics. He speaks in simple language and has a clear message that appeals to low-information voters. Trump has turned the election into political Survivor for the reality-TV-loving masses. Those voters are why Trump has a yuuge lead over the ORANGE-RED Cruz.Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-35461282809983301472016-02-07T13:14:00.001-08:002016-02-07T13:20:14.313-08:00Shifting ColorsReal life is a lot messier than any chart or axis I'm likely to come up with. The scattered, clumpy, shifting patterns in the image below are a little bit closer to how politics actually works.<br />
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Each circle in the image can be seen as a particular faction or ideology coming into and out of power or popularity. Multiple colors converging represents how coalitions form and break up. Individual dots moving away from the center are becoming more extreme, while those drifting towards the center are becoming less so. <br />
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Politics is messy, but politics is built up from the individual choices of many people. When you step back from these recurring factional battles, the broader political patterns represented on the Asplund Chart emerge.Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-51720622552194747952014-03-20T22:07:00.001-07:002014-03-20T22:07:18.579-07:00Disjointed SpectrumsThe <a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-green-centered-full-spectrum.html">GREEN-centered</a> and <a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-purple-centered-full-spectrum.html">PURPLE-centered</a> full spectrums create narratives that favor some kind of centrist compromise. Two disjointed spectrums can be created by combining the left half of one full spectrum with the right half of the other. Unlike the full spectrums, these two ways of arranging the political universe leave no room for a centrist compromise. Both disjointed spectrums have several interpretations, some favored by realists and the others by more ideologically motivated people.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disjointed Spectrum A</td></tr>
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Disjointed Spectrum A is favored by some people of four different color profiles: GREEN-AQUA, GREEN-YELLOW, PURPLE-BLUE and PURPLE-RED. Each color group uses the same disjointed spectrum to tell a very different story about politics.<br />
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AXIS</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%">TRUE<br />
LEFT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%">TRUE<br />
RIGHT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">GOOD</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">EVIL</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">FOOLISH</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">INSANE</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-3-aqua-to-red.html">Spectrum 3</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
LEFT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
RIGHT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-3-aqua-to-red.html">Spectrum 3</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
LEFT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
RIGHT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-4-yellow-to-blue.html">Spectrum 4</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">LEFT<br />
TYRANNY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RIGHT<br />
LIBERTY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-4-yellow-to-blue.html">Spectrum 4</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">LEFT<br />
AUTHORITY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RIGHT<br />
ANARCHY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
</tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disjointed Spectrum B</td></tr>
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Disjointed Spectrum B is favored by some other people of the same color profiles: GREEN-AQUA, GREEN-YELLOW, PURPLE-BLUE and PURPLE-RED. As with Disjointed Spectrum A, each color group uses the same underlying pattern to tell a very different story about politics.<br />
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<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">LEFT-RIGHT<br />
AXIS</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%">TRUE<br />
LEFT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="15%">TRUE<br />
RIGHT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">GOOD</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">EVIL</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">FOOLISH</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="14%">INSANE</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-4-yellow-to-blue.html">Spectrum 4</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
LEFT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
RIGHT</td><td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE</td><td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-4-yellow-to-blue.html">Spectrum 4</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
LEFT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">FAR<br />
RIGHT</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE
</td><td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-3-aqua-to-red.html">Spectrum 3</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">LEFT<br />
ANARCHY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RIGHT<br />
AUTHORITY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/spectrum-3-aqua-to-red.html">Spectrum 3</a></td>
<td style="text-align: center;">LEFT<br />
AUTHORITY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RIGHT<br />
ANARCHY</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">AQUA-<br />
GREEN</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">RED-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">BLUE-<br />
PURPLE</td>
<td style="text-align: center;">YELLOW-<br />
GREEN</td>
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<BR />
No.<BR />
<BR />
The choice of the COLOR assignments is somewhat <i>ad hoc</i>, but the relationships between the COLOR groups follow a very specific and coherent logic.<BR />
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I started with the RED-BLUE right-left split that's been used pretty much nationwide since about November 2000. That assigns BLUE to the political leaders on the left and RED to the leaders on the right.<BR />
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PURPLE is naturally assigned to politicians or states or people who jump back and forth between sides. Bipartisanship is PURPLE because it's the compromise position between RED and BLUE. In western civilization, PURPLE has been associated with political elites since the Roman era. <BR />
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So that's how the bottom three COLORs were set.<BR />
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I used COLOR math to define the top three colors. In the RGB system not-BLUE is YELLOW, not-RED is AQUA and not-PURPLE is GREEN. So the people most opposed to BLUE leadership are YELLOWs. Think Gadsen Flag and gold-bugs and market capitalists. Those most opposed to RED leadership are AQUAs. Note the connection to the Age of Aquarius and think voluntary cooperatives. Those most opposed to political authority itself are GREEN. Think grassroots independence movements that can swing either left or right.<BR />
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All those distinctions leave simple left and right without COLORs. I defined them the same way PURPLE was assigned. Generic right is halfway between RED and YELLOW at socially conservative ORANGE. Generic left is halfway between BLUE and AQUA at culturally progressive DENIM.<BR />
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In the middle of all these conflicting hues, consisting of each but dominated by none lies a space for GRAY people. All the shades of GRAY from almost WHITE to practically BLACK lumped together in the center.<BR />
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So ends this brief overview of the political COLORs of the <a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/the-asplund-chart.html">Asplund Chart</a>. Try not to be politically COLOR-blind.<BR />Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-4795367023595541632014-03-02T19:00:00.003-08:002014-03-07T15:22:33.219-08:00The GREEN-Centered Full SpectrumAs I mentioned when discussing the <a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-purple-centered-full-spectrum.html">PURPLE-centered spectrum</a>, 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.<br />
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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.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3N9WmmJ1Eh48vJmPjf2_SJaLxKo4yUrrjBf0aDEm8NXzEn91omjYKD26qaofGKpN1jzrM7nUqEevIJLpFumaCuZJ8QovapRZl39thoRD3Oy8nX9uMWgO0qxEKcJi5U2IYi9sSUbN0SPlO/s1600/AC_PGP_SPECTRUM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3N9WmmJ1Eh48vJmPjf2_SJaLxKo4yUrrjBf0aDEm8NXzEn91omjYKD26qaofGKpN1jzrM7nUqEevIJLpFumaCuZJ8QovapRZl39thoRD3Oy8nX9uMWgO0qxEKcJi5U2IYi9sSUbN0SPlO/s400/AC_PGP_SPECTRUM.png" /></a></div>Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-70280178818711174192014-03-02T18:46:00.000-08:002014-03-07T15:21:22.517-08:00The PURPLE-Centered Full SpectrumPolitical battles are often won by those who are able to frame a conflict so that their own position is seen as the best (or only) place for everyone else to go in a compromise. The standard left-right framing of political conflicts implicitly empowers anyone who can reasonably claim the center. <br />
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The image below is the COLOR Spectrum that most closely matches the mainstream left-right continuum. From left to right it goes GREEN-AQUA, AQUA, DENIM, BLUE, PURPLE, RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, YELLOW-GREEN. This way of framing politics privileges the PURPLE unity position and marginalizes anyone with more than a hint of GREEN. While this way of looking at politics dominates, PURPLE is the logical point of compromise in every conflict between the mainstream DENIM consensus and the mainstream ORANGE consensus.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOtptAciD8xzIj63NqFOJxvuvbNj0ywrW8y0A6J2eJWRXKU9khn5nWHuN-T6jQTaoE_SYOa2BuD_I0Ab0JHZ51vC9jflo_dwtivaqRWenWdkeVFassG0tP0Uuv3ciQZJim0W4zTgdfhz2/s1600/AC_GPG_SPECTRUM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOtptAciD8xzIj63NqFOJxvuvbNj0ywrW8y0A6J2eJWRXKU9khn5nWHuN-T6jQTaoE_SYOa2BuD_I0Ab0JHZ51vC9jflo_dwtivaqRWenWdkeVFassG0tP0Uuv3ciQZJim0W4zTgdfhz2/s400/AC_GPG_SPECTRUM.png" /></a></div>Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-22854344154150608142014-03-02T15:05:00.000-08:002014-03-02T15:05:29.461-08:00Why Talk in COLOR?Reasons labels fail:<br />
<ul>
<li>Political labels mean different things to different people</li>
<li>Language barriers create translation problems</li>
<li>Political labels create a false sense of precision</li>
<li>Labels change meaning over time and space</li>
<li>Difficult to know how far apart two labels are</li>
</ul>
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Reasons COLOR succeeds:<br />
<ul>
<li>Colors look generally the same to most people</li>
<li>Colors come from (nearly) universal perception of the real world</li>
<li>Everybody immediately knows COLORs are rough approximations</li>
<li>COLORs are consistent over time and space</li>
<li>Distances between COLORs are relatively clear</li>
</ul>
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I'll apply COLORs to the word "Republican" as an example.<br />
<br />
If "Republican" means someone who believes in a generally republican form of government...<br />
<br />
Any COLOR could refer to a generally republican form of government, depending on all of the other characteristics of that republican form of government and the current form of government practiced in that society.<br />
<br />
If "Republican" means someone who believes in a particular republican form of government...<br />
<br />
An American who would like to return to a more originalist Constitutional Republic is probably YELLOW. The many Americans who believe that it would be better to empower other types of democratic republicanism as a way to limit the power of the Federal government might be classified as DENIM, AQUA, GREEN, YELLOW or ORANGE. There are also more consolidated forms of republican government that may be espoused by DENIM, BLUE, PURPLE, RED or ORANGE people.<br />
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If "Republican" means participation in the current Republican Party...<br />
<br />
The core leadership of the Republican Party is somewhere in the PURPLE-RED area. People who vote for the Republican candidate in any given election could be any COLOR, but are more likely to be RED, ORANGE or YELLOW than BLUE, DENIM or AQUA.<br />
<br />
If "Republican" means an activist in the pre-Civil War Republican Party...<br />
<br />
A grassroots activist in the pre-Civil War Republican Party was most likely DENIM, AQUA or GREEN. The abolitionist movement and it's offshoots like the women's movement and civil rights movement are clearly tied across time and space to the modern far left to libertarian part of the spectrum. Northern REDs were generally active in the Republican Party leadership while southern REDs were active in the leadership of the Democratic Party.<br />
<br />
If "Republican" means a member of the post-Civil War Republican Party...<br />
<br />
An official in the post-Civil War Republican government was generally PURPLE. The consolidation of power going on after the war is consistent across time and space with the actions and ideologies of other groups that emerge victorious from a military conflict or maintain their power militarily.<br />
<br />
The world "Republican" can mean any of these things. Treating the label as a useful marker between different times and places can lead to confusion. Using specific COLORs to describe the relationship between a particular republican and their society is more useful if the goal is to understand human behavior.Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-51065487377885099502014-03-02T13:48:00.000-08:002016-08-24T20:40:13.330-07:00What COLOR am I?Fair enough. <br />
<br />
<a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-color-are-you.html">I asked you,</a> so now it's my turn.<br />
<br />
I was born GREEN. I've been told I was very stubborn as an infant and that hasn't changed much as I've aged.<br />
<br />
I grew up in a RED/ORANGE household in an American town in a PURPLE state.<br />
<br />
I have RED/ORANGE parents, YELLOW/GREEN/AQUA siblings and friends/relatives of every COLOR.<br />
<br />
Most of the music I bought as a young man was DENIM/AQUA/GREEN. Rebellion and anger and rejecting the status quo.<br />
<br />
My first presidential vote was cast for GRAY/YELLOW/RED/CRAZY Perot. My second and third were for RED/PURPLE Bush. I'm pretty sure I left that line blank in 2008 and very sure for 2012.<br />
<br />
The only political event I've been to since graduating from a DENIM university was a (much more ORANGE and less YELLOW than I expected) Tea Party US Senate primary debate in my RED state of residence.<br />
<br />
I've read RED books and DENIM treatises, YELLOW pamphlets and AQUA screeds. I've looked through BLUE texts and GREEN wikis, ORANGE archives and PURPLE decrees. At various points in my life I've been RED, ORANGE, YELLOW and GREEN. I've tried on dozens of labels and fit comfortably in none of them. I've learned that practically everyone can point out BLACK while almost nobody has a grasp on WHITE.<br />
<br />
Right now I'm GRAY. GRAY because I know I don't have the definitive answer. GRAY because it's on the path away from BLACK, towards WHITE. GRAY because I believe it includes the best of every COLOR and the worst of none.Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-32620090143543355672013-07-30T17:32:00.000-07:002015-07-27T20:12:10.363-07:00What Color Are You?This may be the shortest political quiz on the internet. Two questions and you're done...<br />
<br />
Question 1: If you knew nothing about a political proposal other than it was supported by President Barack Obama (or your local left of center political leaders), would you...<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/you-support-obama-but-what-about-bush.html">probably support the proposal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/you-oppose-obama-but-what-about-bush.html">probably oppose the proposal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/on-fence-about-obama-but-what-about-bush.html">need to dig in a little deeper before venturing an opinion</a></li>
</ul>Jacob Asplundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12435456198259507503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3147794459835494500.post-34795871541268519432012-08-08T22:37:00.000-07:002014-03-02T13:30:17.849-08:00The Asplund ChartThe map is not the territory. But exploring the territory is a lot easier if you have a map.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/the-asplund-chart.html">The Asplund Chart</a> should be your map of politics. <a href="http://asplundchart.blogspot.com/p/the-asplund-chart.html">Find out why.</a><br />
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