How in the hell would anarchy and fascism ever become one? They're like polar opposites.
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Horseshoe Theory believers tend to be fond of libertarian-authoritarian axis erasure, so they think the opposite of fascism is Stalinism instead.
And yeah, auth-right dictatorships and auth-left dictatorships are indeed pretty damn similar, so they'd have a point... if their premise weren't unfounded to begin with.
It’s more that when you become very extreme, the methods become similar regardless of the underlying politics.
From observation, centrists don’t mind horseshoe theory but further right or left people become enraged when someone brings it up.
Philosophically, sure.
In action and presentation, there's overlaps in outcomes
The idea of a political center is a reification of the spectrum political model. These people aren't centrists because they've formed a ideology, they're centrists because they accept convention like an RPG player who takes the default hero and skips character creation.
internet hiccup; triple posted 😮💨
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