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> When people on the far left and the far right agree, they're usually onto something.

A similar observation is the "horseshoe theory": "The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory



The problem comes with narrowing all political variation down to "left" vs "right". More dimensions are needed to tease apart the differences / similarities.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Other_multi...


A horseshoe could be multi dimensional.




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