It took me a second to understand your picture, because for some reason, which I have just now realized, I always pictured the left on the right side of the drawn graph, and the right on the left. I have no idea why my mind drew the spectrum that way, but I had literally never questioned it until I saw your picture and thought it was backwards and realized I am the one who was backwards.
This should clear everything up:
Tankies are far-left
The Left, the Center, the Right, and the Tankies are points on an unlabeled 2D space?
It took me a second to understand your picture, because for some reason, which I have just now realized, I always pictured the left on the right side of the drawn graph, and the right on the left. I have no idea why my mind drew the spectrum that way, but I had literally never questioned it until I saw your picture and thought it was backwards and realized I am the one who was backwards.
Might be because most cameras capture parliaments from behind, while left and right are from the perspective of the lectern.