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I know many people who've flipped from hard left to hard right, and a few who went R-->L, but I know nobody who's flipped twice: RLR or LRL
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Not for people within the 3-sigma limits of hard right/hard left. Those in the 3-6 sigma range recognize and transcend horseshoe. So...kinda
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now i'm imagining people very near the centre on the left/right axis, but way near the top on the extremist/whateverist axis
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it's not the same thing, though; it's the need to believe in whatever you believe in to an extreme degree
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That's my point. Traditional left right is for foxes. Hedgehogs eventually find and embrace either authoritarianism or libertarianism.
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do you see libertarians as a branch of the left? i've always felt they had way more in common with the right
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libertarians are pretty damn authoritarian when it comes to the rights of *individuals* with "organic" power to push people without around
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