• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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            This is the kind of explanation that doesn’t explain anything to the people who need it explained.

            If it helps, consider horseshoe theory as the idea that all authoritarian systems start doing similar things, completely independent of economic models.

            It’s still not great, but at least there’s an observation in there.

            You can start a separate conversation on whether there’s any value to conceptualizing a left/right spectrum at all (there isn’t)

        • MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz
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          Just to flip this, do you have any sources that horseshoe theory is a real thing? That’s the funny thing about language, someone put Theory in the name and now people think it’s a real thing.

          To save you the trouble, it hasn’t held up under academic study. Plenty of info on Wikipedia about it.

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            It doesn’t deserve even that much effort

            Just the basic definition of the two extremes tells you enough to know there is no similarity, and no serious thought behind the “theory”.