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[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Sorry you were downvoted, political viewpoints are indeed way more nuanced that a single axis (even if I do use the binary terms upon it myself as useful shorthand occasionally)

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess that's what I get for phrasing it like that.

Absolute fact though, "left" to "right" is complete pseudoscience, people want to try to cram the entire subject of how humans reason out ideologies onto a single scale. It makes absolutely zero sense. Most people don't have a single thing it measures in mind, and even if they do, it's not the same thing as if you go and talk to someone else. It has more to do with how we've been corralled into polar group identities and fed division by politicians and media than anything to do with how ideologies actually work.

You can even see it in this thread. Some people are going with the "horseshoe" explanation ("oh, both extremes are authoritarian") and some people say that the "left" "extreme" is completely anti-authoritarian. You people can't even agree on what the scale measures in the first place, so why are you using it? "Well, the ideologies on the left side are leftist, while the ideologies on the right side are rightist."

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