Does the world need another political categorization scheme? Nope — so here’s one I just thought up:

Political orientations can be categorized according to two original social experiences:

• A) early feelings of membership in one’s society;
• B) early feelings of alienation from one’s society.

From the original feeling, political views can develop a variety of ways.

With respect to one’s own pursuit of membership/alienation:

• C) pursue increased degree of membership in one’s society;
• D) pursue increased degree of alienation from one’s society;
• E) maintain current degree of membership/alienation.

With respect to cultivation of membership/alienation feelings:

• F) toward intensifying feelings of membership for those who feel membership;
• G) toward intensifying feelings of alienation for those who feel alienated;
• H) toward deintensifying feelings of membership and alienation.

With respect to enlistment of actors into belonging/alienated camps:

• I) toward increasing the number of people who feel (actual or possible) belonging, while reducing the number of people who feel alienated;
• J) toward increasing the number of people who feel alienated, and reducing the number of people who feel (actual or possible) belonging;
• K) toward maintaining the numbers of those who feel belonging and alienation.

And finally, with respect to attitudes toward change:

• L) hope – optimistic belief that one’s life can be changed for the better;
• M) fear – pessimistic belief that one’s life will be changed for the worse;
• N) resignation – belief that things will happen however they happen and that one has little or no control over it;
• O) skepticism – things can be changed, but the consequences are radically unpredictable.

My own classification would be B.C.H.I.O.

I might need to make a political quiz.