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'd like to admit"
It's rubbish, isn'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'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're not a moderate, you're part of the problem, and an extremist yourself. 4/

The sort of 'middle path in all things' (thanks to Frank Herbert) centrist that is willfully blind to stagnation and the slow creep to dangerous extremes becoming normal.
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And if you've not figured my analogy out, it's the 'hard left' who are the investigators sifting through the car crash our society has become, and it's the fascists who are the gore porn addicts urinating on the memorials to dead police officers.