• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Nevertheless, it does expose a commonality between Sanders and Johnson that you denied.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It’s still jumping between a left-right axis while staying on the libertarian-authoritarian axis. It shows you were never grounded on that axis in the first place.

      A better way to think about political affiliations is a big graph of nodes connected by edges. The downside is that your political map will end up looking like an Always Sunny meme. However, it’s a really powerful tool that explains what Horseshoe Theory is getting at without trying to contort the whole thing.