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true... although on what issues idk
fighting over who gets to genocide the jews perhaps
The Oakland Raiders are anti Pittsburgh Steelers, and vice versa.
They're not both anti-football.
its kind of my point that both sides are similar, but they are still opponents, so you could end up with a pendulum swinging between two flavors of insanity
but both are authoritarian and socialist, and the extreme of both. and, more importantly, tried to keep the pendulum on their side
the pendulum wasn't swinging
well consider the democrats and republicans pendulum
this is what happens when you want to stop the pendulum from swinging.
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@NativeInterface correct me if i'm wrong, but free market capitalism is basically based on this idea. If a company gets too greedy, competition will spring up to pull the pendulum back, preventing monopoly. Thus, things will ebb and flow back and forth, hopefully, the theory is, near a happy center.
i guess you could look at it that way, but i don't. a pendulum only moves in two directions so it represents a dichotomy, so i wouldn't use that metaphor.
but i get that you're arguing for the ebb and flow part of the pendulum, so i see what you're saying.
i just think false dichotomies and middle ground fallacies is the reason the u.s. is shit
it depends on the context of the pendulum i guess
does a pendulum only move in 2 directions?
i was thinking of a grandfather clock i guess
a pendulum is a weight at the end of a string fixed to a point. if left to swing, at least here on earth, it will slowly move around in a circle. Each time it swings back and forth, it is never quite hitting the same spot as before as the earth rotates under it.
i guess each democratic and republican president are less democratic and republican than the previous one. i don't know if political parties have any principles anymore.
or if they ever did
i don't think they ever did. some candidates tow party lines better than others, but trump ran as a republican... but is he a really a republican?
at first i got the impression he was more republican than mainstream republicans, but now i just think he's a flip-flopper
people who remain devote to a party may create false dichotomies, but if you think of the political spectrum as more of a sphere, republican and democrats are like saying the west and the east.... technically the west is east of the east as the east is east of the west. its a circle, keep travelling in one direction you will end up where you started without hitting an edge. unless you draw artificial lines
and you can still go up or down
horseshoe theory
you have 3 dimensions you can move in that we have narrowed down to 2 vague groups
in a sense you could say that, head east far enough from the west coast you will end up back at the west coast
could you give a political real life example of this?
I think it's more suitable to think of them as poles
Rather than heading right/left
depends on what you mean political example? I think the fact we have a bunch of candidates that are not just exact copies of their supposed parties, and outliers who just sometimes end up on the ballot as a random party that they don't fit nicely into as proof enough that the democrats are republican split is just a 2d cross section of 3d space
which creates, as you have accurately pointed out, a false dichotomy.
it has removed an entire axis
haha
I won't daddy.