Stormfront or SJW?
There is a pretty awesome web game called “Stormfront or SJW” where you are presented with quotes from websites and have to guess whether the quote appeared on the Neo-Nazi Stormfront or is from a far-left “social justice warrior”.
I think this is such a great illustration of the recent partial convergence of rhetoric and ideas between the far left and the far right. Both are united in:
1) their lack of commitment to our Constitutional framework and for change to be achieved through democracy and elections
2) their reliance on conspiracy theories
3) their hostility to American involvement of any sort in international affairs
4) their omnipresent utter derangement toward Israel and Jews
People have often debated what is the proper geometric model for political views. Is it a one-dimensional left-right axis where depending on their opinions individuals somewhere on the linear continuum? Is it rather a two-dimensional political compass with economic and social issues on orthogonal axes? My view is that whatever the dimensionality, politics has a closed geometry where going far enough to the extreme links you directly up with the other extreme.