The American Ideology Project · 1776–2026
Most political maps sort you by which side you pick. This one asks something harder: whether you hold the tensions together — liberty with equality, the nation with the people — or fall to a pole, drift into the empty middle, or stop believing the whole thing means anything. A short series of questions places you among those who came before.
Your place on the map
First-draft placements. The avatar coordinates and the question set are editable arrays at the top of the script (AVATARS, QUESTIONS) — move a figure, swap an item, retune the thresholds. Scoring follows the three-instrument logic: tensional sliders set position, the cardinal items read your dominant attachment, the three frame questions decide whether a central placement is the synthesized core or the void.