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This is the way I view the political spectrum.

If they don't allow economic freedom, then they are not right wing, they are simply authoritarian, which IS the case with the Republican party. Also the case with the Democratic party. If they allowed personal freedoms, they would be left wing, but drugs remain illegal at the federal level, and a Democratic president continues to allow the enforcement of such laws. Numerous other personal freedoms remain under assault.

So my point stands. We only disagree on definitions. You envision a square where you can have left and right wing very far from each other despite having the same level f authoritarianism, where I envision a diamond, where the views they espouse to the public have no impact, and you only look at their actions, where there is no real discernible difference between left and right when they become more authoritarian. This is illustrated by the fact that Obama has perpetuated pretty much every Bush policy, on both social and economic issues. Guantanamo remains open. We continue to print money and give it to the banks. Same actions, different words.

Doesn't that destroy the meaning of "left wing" and "right wing"?

Which of those tribes do you belong to? Hate the other one. You have a choice!

(The Nolan Chart is much better, but still of an artificially low dimensionality.)

Well, good for you, but your fellow Libertarians don't seem to be fond of the idea.

From the article you provide:

"So, my suggestion for a libertarian alternative to the EFCA is simply this:"

"Any employer (company) that refuses to allow its employees to unionize, should be disallowed the charter of incorporation and its consequent benefits."

Yeap, that's so evil, standing up for the rights of employees to unionize. Oh, but wasn't your object to libertarians was that they didn't support unions?

Falcon

Well, good for you, but your fellow Libertarians don't seem to be fond of the idea.

And they admit that because of the way the government is funded through the Fed they can never pay off the debt. What makes that a good thing?

I have no idea what this refers to, but I strongly suspect that the source is nonsense.

http://www.nolanchart.com/article2991.html

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north532.html

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=14757

So Ron Paul was right after all. If we just BUTT OUT of the world militarily and politically, ...and stop pulling tigers tails everywhere we find them, ...and stop leaving our military everywhere ...and stop promising to be in Iraq for another 100 years... and stop building military bases and a US Embassy bigger than the VATICAN... then maybe with a few years gone by after all that... maybe then we could trade and have commerce and live peaceably in the world.

ahh but WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE, profitable for government that it is, there will be no chance of that...

American Dollars are less than worthless right now- "Barclays Capital has advised clients to batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm, warning that the US Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of the bottle and let its credibility fall "below zero". - Telegraph.co.uk

Ron Paul and his supporters and trying to change the Republican Party. This will be a slow process, probably taking 5-15 years before we have significant leadership positions in that party

People have been trying to change the Republican Party for more than 30 years now. The Libertarian Party was started by Republicans who were fed up with the republican party and Nixon. However Libertarians have been fighting in the party at least since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower ran for president. What ironic is that Ike is the same person who warned about the military industrial complex.

What's more, Paul's connections to extremism go beyond the newsletters. He has given extensive interviews to the magazine of the John Birch Society, and has frequently been a guest of Alex Jones, a radio host and perhaps the most famous conspiracy theorist in America. Jones--whose recent documentary, Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, details the plans of George Pataki, David Rockefeller, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, among others, to exterminate most of humanity and develop themselves into "superhuman" computer hybrids able to "travel throughout the cosmos"--estimates that Paul has appeared on his radio program about 40 times over the past twelve years.

You should dig a little deeper. Those comments weren't written by him, but were posted under his name, without his permission.

For more detailed rebuttal of Ron Paul's alleged white supremacist ties, read here: http://www.nolanchart.com/article607.html