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An American politician, Goldwater was a decisive figure of the modern right in the United States, defending free markets, anti-communism, and limited government, and paving the way for Reaganite conservatism.
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Barry Goldwater leans further toward free market than 94% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where Barry Goldwater stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Barry Goldwater sits close to the catalog median.
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A doctrine combining a minimal state in taxation, regulation and morals with strong armed forces and an armed citizenry: national defense is the one expanded state function, treated as the condition of civil liberty rather than its exception.
Philosophy created by Ayn Rand that exalts reason, individualism, and rational egoism, defending laissez-faire capitalism and the pursuit of one's own happiness as the supreme moral purpose of each person's life.
Economic system based on private property, free markets, and the pursuit of profit, in which production and prices are regulated by competition and supply and demand, with individual initiative as its engine.
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Eco-AuthoritarianismRadical Left34%
An Objectivist philosopher, Peikoff was Ayn Rand's principal intellectual heir, systematizing Objectivism and defending reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism as the foundations of life and morality.
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The least populous U.S. state, Wyoming levies no state income or corporate tax, bases its economy on oil, gas, and mining, and combines a strong gun culture with deep distrust of the federal government.
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A pioneering modern merchant republic, the United Provinces were a confederation governed by a commercial oligarchy, marked by religious tolerance, free trade, and immense naval and financial power at their height.
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