[HPforGrownups] Politics

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 71660

Kathryn:
>* I* never said Umbridge was of the right because she was cruel. When it

No, that was me. I'll admit to being a trifle flippant in my original post,
basically because I don't think that WW politics works the same way as
politics in our world. .

>their own authoritarian systems but the basic tenet is equality. Umbridge
>does not seem to me to show any kind of desire to help the lower classes
(in
>as much as the WW has them) but rather to be aligning herself with the
>establishment. She is very authoritarian and if her own words can be

An interesting observation has been made (see the link here
http://www.politicalcompass.org/ and take their test if you feel so
inclined) which is that it's important to distinguish not only between left
and right wing views, but also between authoritarian and libertarian ones.
It's quite correct that some people on both right and left can be equally
authoritarian (or equally libertarian) as well as being opposite to one
another and perhaps this is a better framework to assess the WW than
concepts of party politics which seem not to be present.

By that token, I'd see Umbridge as strongly authoritarian but would put
Crouch, Voldemort and possibly Fudge there too. But then logically
authoritarians would gravitate towards either the DEs or the MoM anyway. I
would suspect that most wizards would lean towards the libertarian side
though.

Cheers

Ffred (who scored 3 points libertarian and 7 points left wing - but then you
probably gathered that anyway!)

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