Marco responds to my earlier post on The Political Compass:

…there’s no one they picked in the Right-Libertarian square! In practice, in a 2-party system, if you want conservative, you (tend to) get authoritarianism…. the founding fathers, if on that graph, and modified for their time, probably *would* fall down there. Jefferson, almost unquestionably, for example.

I’ll start by referring to another image on the Political Compass analysis page:

This one does show someone down in that lower-right corner: Milton Friedman the Nobel-winning economist. Based on what I’ve heard him say, Alan Greenspan would probably land in that quadrant too. I’m not super-familiar with the US Founding Fathers, but from what I do know Marco’s example of Thomas Jefferson seems dead on the money.

Note, though, that two of those three people are not political leaders (and the other one is dead). As I said in my previous post, if you look at individual leaders, you’ll probably find people who tend to believe that individual leadership (ie: authoritarianism) is a good way to run things. There will be exceptions, but the rule is quite clear. That’s goes for both sides of the economic (socialist/capitalist) axis; it’s not just for the conservatives.

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