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In a word, horseshoe theory. If you’re on the extreme sides of the political spectrum, you’re essentially authoritarian, even if you don’t necessarily “feel” th
by nis0s 1y ago
In a word, horseshoe theory. If you’re on the extreme sides of the political spectrum, you’re essentially authoritarian, even if you don’t necessarily “feel” that you are authoritarian.
- tmtvl 1y agoThe political spectrum isn't left to right, despite some places seeming that way. The political spectrum is both progressive to conservative and libertarian to authoritarian. Although that's a lie and it isn't as simple as that either, because it doesn't work for differentiating green conservatives from regular conservatives, for example.
- mindslight 1y agoGreen conservatives are still talking about climate change as their main issue. Regular conservatives just want these fucking fascists deposed, in prison, and their deplorable enablers back to being ashamed ^_^
- _yb2s 11mo agoI’d argue the opposite- most people don’t think of politics in terms of goals, philosophy, or policy but in terms of group identity. In that sense, politics is the USA is effectively binary rather than one dimensional. If you’re going to talk about something like philosophical values, you could have almost infinite dimensions, but you’d find it impossible to place most actual voters anywhere because the dimensions will represent things they have no opinion on and have never thought about.
- mindslight 1y agoI've always taken the horseshoe end to be individual liberty, with "centrists" being more the corporate-authoritarian agenda. So that you're construing in the opposite way shows that while the concept might be somewhat enlightening, it's not really a super useful model.