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>>10721211
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Imagine a M2F tranny who is demanding all guns in the US be smelted into a mosque for new migrants. Those policies would widely be considered "left," but many people who identify as leftists would jump to disassociate themselves with such contentions.
To everybody on the "right," however, all leftists are just varying shades of this extreme ideology.

The left sees the right as bible thumpin', gun totin', abortion hatin' trailer trash.
The right sees the left as freedom destroying, virtue signalling, subversive collectivists.
The 2-axis political spectrum attempts to solve this, but you can't effectively quantify politics. (It's possible, but people aren't smart enough to understand it.)

Reducing an opposing idea to merely "left" or "right" immediately polarizes their entire platform. They automatically become aligned with an ideology and are treated as such.
Saul Alinsky said it best. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
It creates chasms of disagreement between people who are probably much more similar than they'd like to admit.

For better or for worse, this divide is becoming less and less apparent with the internet. Differing opinions are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. The hive mind is here.