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Sorry about the prior Overton Window thread. Have been luuurking since 2017. Do not often post. Will do it this way.

(I realize that I'm still an asshole even though I apologized.)

Overton oriented his graph up-down to avoid association with the common left-right paradigm. The graph should be presented as he intended. "The Overton window, also known as the window of discourse, describes the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. The term is derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton, a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who, in his description of his window, claimed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within the window, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.[1][2] According to Overton's description, his window includes a range of policies considered politically acceptable in the current climate of public opinion, which a politician can recommend without being considered too extreme to gain or keep public office….Overton described a spectrum from "more free" to "less free" with regard to government intervention, oriented vertically on an axis, to avoid comparison with the left-right political spectrum"

Good info here: https://www.mackinac.org/7504