Thinking right-wing = 0 government is a foolish way of looking at left/right because I'll tell you right now, the average left anarchist wants a completely different looking society than your average right libertarian. Just like how there's a significant difference between National Socialism and Modern Communism.

What really throws off the high vs. low government people is that you can have an absolute power government with very limited impact on the economy whereas you can have a "democracy" with lots of "mAh fReEdOms" that has significant economic impact on the economy. Just because a government has absolute power doesn't mean it enforces it absolutely. And just because a government's power is minimized by constitutions doesn't mean the government isn't corrupt and will still maximize its use of power regardless.

The USA today is more "left-wing" under the government power metric than the British Monarchy was before the revolution. Today, the argument is well I can at least criticize the president without being executed. Sure, I guess... but you can't even go fishing without a license or you get fined. I don't know about you but I'd rather be able to go fishing without a license than care about calling Biden an invalid. The way in which the government today uses its power is worse than the way the government used its power historically.

Thinking right-wing = 0 government is a foolish way of looking at left/right because I'll tell you right now, the average left anarchist wants a completely different looking society than your average right libertarian. Just like how there's a significant difference between National Socialism and Modern Communism.

What really throws off the high vs. low government people is that you can have an absolute power government with very limited impact on the economy whereas you can have a "democracy" with lots of "mAh fReEdOms" that has significant economic impact on the economy. Just because a government has absolute power doesn't mean it enforces it absolutely. And just because a government's power is minimized by constitutions doesn't mean the government isn't corrupt and will still maximize its use of power regardless.

The USA today is more "left-wing" under the government power metric than the British Monarchy was before the revolution. Today, the argument is well I can at least criticize the president without being executed. Sure, I guess... but you can't even go fishing without a license or you get fined. I don't know about you but I'd rather be able to go fishing without a license than care about calling Biden an invalid.