Some global issues have prompted partnerships between seemingly strange bedfellows at opposite ends of the political spectrum. The ‘horseshoe theory’ tries to make sense of this, but what’s it about?
The idea of a political center is a reification of the spectrum political model. These people aren’t centrists because they’ve formed a ideology, they’re centrists because they accept convention like an RPG player who takes the default hero and skips character creation.
The idea of a political center is a reification of the spectrum political model. These people aren’t centrists because they’ve formed a ideology, they’re centrists because they accept convention like an RPG player who takes the default hero and skips character creation.