Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
He picks out a new coach to chastise each week. It's sad.

What people don't realize is that politics are not a pendulum, they are a circle in which, at the extremes, the two sides become far more alike than different. What's the difference between Stalin & Hitler? On paper one was far left & the other far right, but reality, they were just about the same damn person.

Stop extremism both ways. Understand the other side
??? One was the head of a communist party and one was the head of a socialist party. Neither was on the right.

The reason some extremes seem the same is that there are lots of different things to care about in policy/politics and it would be shocking for them to align on the same axis consistently. Left and right only makes sense at all b/c we have a system set up for dominance by two political parties, and we have linked policies b/c of political realities and started to view them as logically linked because of tribalism.

For example, there is no logical reason that how a person feels about unions would be particularly predictive of how they feel about abortion. But it is because people pick parties based on an issue or two they care about and then align their views on things they don't care as much about based on what the "good people" believe. Or they entirely skip the step where they decide what they care about, and just latch on to a group they have affiliation for for one reason or another and match their views to theirs.