The placement on whichparty.nz was a little surprising given it told me that I'm a Democratic Socialist 93% aligned with te Pati Māori and 92% aligned with the Greens
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I think the plotting of the different parties is accurate though (by 2026 standards) there's a linier chart I keep seeing shared on Bluesky that clusters most mainstream parties on the far-right which I think is inaccurate and unhelpful
@byroncclark It depends which policies you focus on of course, and there's far more than two dimensions in reality.
But if you were to compare with post-war governments throughout the west where even the right ran 67% top tax rates on heavily regulated industry, pro-union stances, massive state building programs, and cradle-to-grave benefit systems, it's pretty easy to set a middle point where most are far to the economic right of that.
Like, the left won the war, and it took until the 80's and 90's to undo that back to liberalism, and now it's contested by fascism again. Things that focus on "relative to today's average" miss that, the world used to be very different, there's nothing about this world which is set in stone, and the "traditional" parties just aren't.
