I started a post that turned out to be too clever by half, based on the idea that liberals think of themselves as chaotic good as a leftover from the 70s when people were moving into communes and becoming Jesus people and breaking the marijuana laws and having very different fashions. That devolved into just sticking it to The Man by having different fashions and music. Ha ha, oldsters! But as they took over the institutions - journalism, education, government, mainstream religion - they are now lawful neutral. They frame Trump as a good-evil axis, but it's the law-chaos axis that really upsets them. I think even a lot of his supporters see him as chaotic neutral, with the chaos part being necessary enough to outweigh other considerations.
That's okay as far as it goes, but it's only half an idea and when I tried to expand it the various branches kept collapsing with counterexamples in quick order. Play with it on your own if you like.
I never liked the D&D alignment system. I once ran an extensive roleplaying campaign set dead against it: in the game setting, the Court of Chaos and the Court of Order were *jointly* responsible for keeping the course of nature running, and usually did, though they sniped a lot as they did so. Just before game play starts, they finally had a serious falling out, and each court split into separatist and collaborationist factions. The player characters were all collaborationists, Lords and Ladies of Order or Chaos, tasked with keeping the Scheme of Things (tm) running while the Powers That Be worked on getting the separatist factions under control.
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Oh, yeah. Besides the Courts of Order and Chaos, there were the Knights of the Periodic Table, personifications of the chemical elements. Silicon was a major player character, able to do just about anything with electronics, software, or mirrors. He does not want to talk about the politics behind the formation of the Sahara Desert.
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