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So I recently had an idea I thought of while playing Hearts of Iron IV. The title of this idea comes from Winston Churchill's semi-famous speech to Harvard in 1943 where he said "the empires of the future will be empires of the mind." Basically, my idea is this: create or speculate a timeline where there is a cold war following World War I or World War II where the ideologies are what you scored on the political compass test (https://www.politicalcompass.org/), see which ideology you are closest to, and look for the parallel opposite of that ideology is on the chart and that will be the opposing side of the cold war. For example, when I did the political compass test I scored right in between three ideologies: Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, and Left-Libertarianism/Libertarian Socialism. Looking at the parallel of the chart, the opposite of those ideologies would be right-wing progressivism (which I don't know exactly what that is, maybe Neoconservatism), Libertarian Capitalism, and regular right-wing Libertarianism.

What makes this idea a little harder is that the ideology and its parallel you get has to be that exact one and nothing else, which wasn't really the way the OTL Cold War occurred, where both sides supported groups that were in many parts of the political spectrum (like the U.S., a more libertarian country, supporting several Fascist regimes in Latin America).

So show me what you got!
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