The political horseshoe theory is a great example to be used to assess the modicum level of political literacy, because only someone who is politically illiterate can believe political horseshoe theory. 1/
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If you every find yourself saying that the extremes of right and left have much in common, try this sentence out:
"Gore porn addicts and crash scene investigators have more in common than they& #39;d like to admit"
It& #39;s rubbish, isn& #39;t it? And so is political horseshoe theory. 2/
We live in a society where 31% of people would object to the statue of Colston, a murderer of black children, being removed even by a properly observed democratic process. 3/
If you believe that there& #39;s somehow equivalence between people who are struggling to correct that horrendous imbalance, and those who urinate on the memorial of a dead police officer, you& #39;re not a moderate, you& #39;re part of the problem, and an extremist yourself. 4/
The sort of & #39;middle path in all things& #39; (thanks to Frank Herbert) centrist that is willfully blind to stagnation and the slow creep to dangerous extremes becoming normal.
5/
And if you& #39;ve not figured my analogy out, it& #39;s the & #39;hard left& #39; who are the investigators sifting through the car crash our society has become, and it& #39;s the fascists who are the gore porn addicts urinating on the memorials to dead police officers.
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