Since most of us were given little-to-no civics education in grade school and have been left to major media’s devices in order to differentiate between supposedly opposing political ideologies in current American terms, I thought I’d take a stab at condensing this overly-complicated and widely-misinformed subject into a more digestible foundation of definitions. The way I see it, all federal policy can be reasonably fit into one of three categories: economic, foreign, and domestic (civil/social). Within each of these categories exists an ideological spectrum with antithetical endpoints. For economic ideology, it’s the market forces of supply versus demand that define the ends of the spectrum; one either believes demand drives supply or vice versa, and approaches each economic policy decision from that perspective. I’ve written in detail about this subject here . Foreign policy exists on an interventionism/isolationism spectrum wherein nearly none of it rests entirely on eithe...