The so-called "horseshoe theory" posits that when you look at the "left/right" axis of the political spectrum, the more you go to the absolute extremes, rather than the two political ideologies becoming increasingly different, they actually start looking more and more similar. (This is visualized by having the "left/right" axis not as a straight line, but a curve where the left and the right start going to opposite directions from the center, but then they curve and become closer to each other the more you go to the extremes. Like a horseshoe.)
Well, the extreme left and the extreme right do have a surprising amount of similarities.
Both are deeply authoritarian and totalitarian, seeking to control society and every aspect of it with an iron fist.
Both want to separate people into groups based on things like race and ethnicity, and to treat people differently, discriminate against them, or give them special rights and privileges, based on which such group they belong to.
Both want to limit people's rights and freedoms based on their race. Both want eg. people discriminated against in hiring (and to be fired from their current jobs) for the wrong opinions, or because of their skin color. Both want to limit people free speech and freedom of expression.
Both express genocidal opinions about certain groups of people based on their race.
Both see people of certain races not conforming to the ideology as "race traitors".
Both share a hatred of Jews.
Both share a hatred of the police.
Both promote and engage in violence for political purposes, to intimidate and to scare, and consider it justified.
Both diminish, belittle, deny or even justify the mass genocides committed by their respective ideologies in the past.
Well, the extreme left and the extreme right do have a surprising amount of similarities.
Both are deeply authoritarian and totalitarian, seeking to control society and every aspect of it with an iron fist.
Both want to separate people into groups based on things like race and ethnicity, and to treat people differently, discriminate against them, or give them special rights and privileges, based on which such group they belong to.
Both want to limit people's rights and freedoms based on their race. Both want eg. people discriminated against in hiring (and to be fired from their current jobs) for the wrong opinions, or because of their skin color. Both want to limit people free speech and freedom of expression.
Both express genocidal opinions about certain groups of people based on their race.
Both see people of certain races not conforming to the ideology as "race traitors".
Both share a hatred of Jews.
Both share a hatred of the police.
Both promote and engage in violence for political purposes, to intimidate and to scare, and consider it justified.
Both diminish, belittle, deny or even justify the mass genocides committed by their respective ideologies in the past.
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