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In the horseshoe model of politics, those two are not far apart from each other. They both oppose the competent centrist.

• hoity 4y ago
  The "competent centrist" is a myth though. The centrists, who basically advocate business as usual, are who have given us so many financial crises, wars, poverty and suffering over the decades.
  • batch12 4y ago
    The "incompetent extremist" is not a myth, unfortunately.
  • glitchc 4y ago
    And yet consistent growth, overall better standard of living for all humanity, increased longevity, better quality of life, resuced human diseases, more than sufficient food production to feed every human on the planet (if we can figure out logistics)… yeah. Those unreasonable centrists. All of the events you mention can be attributed to the politics of the extremists.
  • blowski 4y ago
    Not all centrists are competent and not all those who are competent are centrists. Yet far more sustainable prosperity has been brought about more by those leading from the centre compared to those at the fringes.
• ad404b8a372f2b9 4y ago
  The opposite of extremism is not centrism. It's something that aggravates me to no end in these discussion (not saying it for you but in general), it is possible to be partisan, have nuanced views on the left and/or the right, and to recognize the current parties don't represent the interests of their constituents. If both parties are aligned on both ends of an axis of issues which are mostly irrelevant to people's daily lives, the answer is not to go to the center of this axis, it's to go orthogonal.