It burns!!!

Rule 2 : (for added clarity and fun, I will be splitting this into two sections: blatant mistakes and libertarian-isms that lead me to believe this chart is part of an insidious conspiracy in which Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell's child slaves churn out a steady supply of terrible, chart-related propaganda.)

Blatant Fuck-Ups

• Obama isn't an authoritarian socialist. He certainly doesn't belong that close to Stalin or the goddamn Taliban (which also wasn't Socialist).

• U.S. Progressives tend to be further left than Obama, rather than right, as shown in this chart.

• The Taliban state was never that centralized, especially compared to the USSR under Stalin. Yet they are about even on the statism scale (are we using statism as a synonym for "meanness", perhaps?)

• On a similar note, traditional monarchies varied greatly in levels of centralization or "statism".

• Comparing people, groups and pieces of writing (?!) from radically different points in history.

• The use of a number system on the graph, despite there being no lines on the graph or dots to indicate where the different items lie in relation to them.

Libertarian-isms

• "Obama is almost as bad as the Taliban!"

• Statism = Authoritarianism and general crappiness.

• "Republicans and Democrats are both equally crappy statist!"

• Glorifying right-libertarianism by equating it with the constitution and articles of confederation (and absolutely nothing else).

• The tenuous grasp on history, political science and how charts are made.

I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing. Let's hear it!