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Horseshoe Theory is stupid. It’s based on the flawed assumption that politics can or should be understood on a single axis. It can’t and shouldn’t be. That heu
by thephyber 1y ago
Horseshoe Theory is stupid.
It’s based on the flawed assumption that politics can or should be understood on a single axis. It can’t and shouldn’t be. That heuristic is wrong.
If viewed on a 2d axis, the “cohorts that appear similar” on the ends of the horseshoe are still on opposing ends of one of the axes, despite being near each other on another axis.
- consumer451 1y agoI see it as the gateway to people realizing that the left/right 1D line, and even the political compass, are ridiculous. IMHO, political positioning should be described as a tensor, where each data point is the person's position on a specific policy.