• GreenBottles@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m still waiting to see who these ‘radical left democrats’ are… cuz I’m more left and radical than ANYONE that’s elected currently. I don’t understand how that doesn’t just get old…

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      23 hours ago

      You’re not radical or left enough to have gone all the way around to being extremely right… it’s like a circle…

      Edit: people obviously didn’t get the joke 🤷‍♂️

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 hours ago

        Horseshoe theory is bullshit.

        The original spectrum is based on seating arrangements of the French ruling body after the revolution. Maybe that’s not a good model to begin with.

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        No it’s not. The political spectrum is two-dimensional not one dimensional. You’ve got radical left and radical right on one axis and then you’ve got authorian and libertarian on the other axis. Their can be, and has been, authoritarian left wing leaders. Trump is right and up. They’ve gone left and up, they haven’t gone in a circle.