New Political Compass Certificate - Do you agree?

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New Political Compass Certificate - Do you agree?

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Yo. Today I make a new topic because for the Political Compass website has changed their certificate to include different famous political figures and philosophers. So I am making this topic in order to tell you where they are placed and ask if you agree. Thank you.

Authoritarian Left
Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Robert Mugabe
Fidel Castro

Authoritarian Right
Thomas Hobbes
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
Augusto Pinochet
Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton
Angela Merkel
Theresa May

Libertarian Left
Thomas Paine
Peter Kropotkin
Emma Goldman
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Noam Chomsky
Bernie Sanders
Jeremy Corbyn
Jill Stein
Nicola Sturgeon

Libertarian Right
Ludwig von Mises
Friedrich Hayek
Ayn Rand
Milton Friedman
Gary Johnson
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What are Hillary Clinton, and especially Angela Merkel, doing on the authoritarian right? :?
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The people who run the Political Compass website are quite clearly on 'the left', so they're obviously going to put Hillary Clinton on the authoritarian right (I would agree, though) Putting Nicola Sturgeon on the libertarian left is a bit of a stretch: while she's outwardly quite 'left-wing', she's fairly pro-big-business, and runs the Scottish National Party as cleanly and ruthlessly as Tony Blair ran New Labour.

I dislike these categorizations, though. People should focus on policies that increase the general welfare of all sentient beings, not political orientations, parties or (all things being equal) personalities.
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EquALLity wrote:What are Hillary Clinton, and especially Angela Merkel, doing on the authoritarian right? :?
Angela Merkel is the member of the CDU, Christian Democrats, a right-wing authoritarian party.

Hillary is socially conservative, she once supported segregation and opposed gay marriage. She still supports the death penalty and opposes separation of church and state. This makes her authoritarian. She is also a capitalist piggy, making her economically right-wing. She also supports the evil authoritarian right regime of Israel.
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So recently, I used the charts for the 2017 UK and French elections and the 2016 USA elections to see which figures the candidates and parties are closest to:

Scottish Socialist Party - Fidel Castro
Labour - Nicola Sturgeon
Green - Nelson Mandela
SDLP - Jill Stein
Scottish National Party - Jill Stein/Angela Merkel
Plaid Cymru - Jill Stein
Liberal Democrat - Angela Merkel
DUP - Theresa May
UKIP - Benito Mussolini
Conservative - Hillary Clinton/Benito Mussolini
Melenchon - Nicola Sturgeon
Hamon - Jill Stein
Le Pen - Donald Trump
Fillon - Hillary Clinton
Macron - Ludwig von Mises
Jill Stein - Jill Stein
Donald Trump - Augusto Pinochet
Hillary Clinton - Hillary Clinton
Gary Johnson - Ludwig von Mises

This gives me the impression that the Political Compass needs to make a few alterations.
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