Who's Johan Goldberg? Really, I'm not a follower. My views and beliefs are mine alone muddled together by my own life experiences. But I AM thinking...

Over night, I did a little searching and consideration of my own view. What I find is I need to have a more complete interaction of the economic policies and then the social rules of a governing body. Not just the less to more government linear scale. (Though I do see the valitity in that descriptor, it defys the common definition of left(liberal)/right(constervative). The difference in governing and government.

The Nolan chart is a somewhat better discriptor. On that chart, facism and communism are very close, though in reality they were bitter enemies. Also, I could not find any labeling nazism left, as supected. I did find numerous writings labeling nazism and facism as far right. BUT with no basis, just that it is. I have a hard time just taking someones word, particularly when I know a little about it. So I took apart the style of governing of WW2 Germany. It's Statism, in the center bottom. Very little personal liberty & gov't run economy, & gov't controlled press. Hardly right where economic freedom and open press rules, with some limits on personal freedoms. Not Left, either, where personal freedoms are paramount.

So, you haven't mentioned your position except that I'm not correct. How would you describe the left/right paradigm?