KilroywasNOTHere
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I'm having a hard time grasping the point of your philosophy. You call it "the truth behind the horseshoe theory" but then barely talk about the horseshoe theory only mentioning it once in passing in your essay. Here is the truth about the horseshoe theory: If you try to plot out political ideologies and it ends up looking like a horseshoe, its because you are either using the wrong metrics or incorrectly categorizing a group.
Your whole essay seems to hinge on the idea that the "Alt-Right" is actually right wing. I totally disagree with that assertion.
The American right-wing has ALWAYS been founded in the ideals of classical liberalism and its intense emphasis on Individualism. The American left is firmly centered around collectivism which is more than abundantly clear in its current fervor for identity politics.
The Alt-Right isn't right wing at all, the term was coined by the low IQ individual Richard Spencer who claims to cherish western civilization but just recently tweeted: "Hagia Sophia is a monument to *eternity*, not a museum to the past. Though I have mixed feelings on the matter, and on President Erdogan, I ultimately support the cathedral's transformation into a mosque and being put into the care of Muslims." The man is an unhinged quack who is just trying to fill any power vacuum he sees and the left wing media is more than happy to run with this name because it gives their base an enemy to fight and its easier than admitting that left wing ideology is once again eating itself alive.
I think the term Alt-Right is throwing you for a loop because you are taking it at face value. The Alt-Right is nothing more than a continuation of the ideology of the collectivist left because it is left wing. There is no horseshoe here. You have two groups of Authoritarian Collectivists who hate each other (Antifa/SJW/BLM vs "Alt-Right"/NeoNazis) and they hate each other because they are trying to occupy the same ground of left wing ideology.
Collectivism = Left-wing, Individualism = Right-wing, it seems you have a problem with the left and left-wing ideology. You're not dealing with a horseshoe you're dealing with a straight line. You're not caught in the middle between wolves and coyotes all your enemies are in one single place. I understand that you don't like collectivists, I don't either, but you aren't in the middle of a horseshoe.
my biggest fear and my biggest concern is that I think we're starting to develop a bit of a tumor on the right. Whether these new collictivist are Right winged or not, they are gladly claiming the name and for better or worse, as the left gets more braze, the Alt-right is reciving conservatives in droves. Once the left implodes (Which I believe is going to be sooner than later given the state of things) there's going to be a new dichotomy. Either were going to have to create a new right and a new left, or we are going to have to ditch those labels and do something else, problem is Conservatives tend to sit quietly and just let both sides take and twist labels however they please, there are two sides one claiming to be traditionalist right and the other a post-moderism left. but for most of us on the outside looking in, we see two sides of collectivism, one with a faux-christian skin, the other with a Marxism skin.
Conservatives need to stop being cowards and tell both sides to politically go jump off a cliff, preferably on national television. Otherwise we have no right to complain about being politically and culturally uprooted.