Election 2016

What COLOR is Hillary Clinton?

What COLOR is globalism?

PURPLE

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.

While there is fierce and sometimes deadly conflict among factions of the globalist elites, they're all motivated by the same basic proposition:

"All the worlds eggs should be in one basket."

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.

Shifting Colors

Real 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.

NOTE: If none of the circles are moving, your browser isn't set up to handle animated SVG images. Sorry.

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.

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.