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2. I'm telling you, Sanders is NOT what Sanders people think he is...see HORSESHOE THEORY below:

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http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/horseshoe_theory


The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye.[1]

Horseshoe theory competes with the conventional linear left-right continuum system as well as the various multidimensional systems. Proponents of the theory point to similarities between the extreme left and the extreme right. Specifically, the two ends share an authoritarian element. In extreme left political systems (such as communism) the government takes control of the economic resources. In extreme right political systems (such as fascism) the government also takes control of the economic life, creating a central planning. With both extremes, this theory asserts, the power elite are opposed to genuine clean elections, genuinely free media and speech, and similar democratic institutions that characterise the political center.
Contents

1 Origin of the term
2 Criticism
3 See also
4 References

Origin of the term

The earliest use of the term in political theory appears to be from Jean-Pierre Faye's book Le Siècle des idéologies.[2] Others have attributed the theory as having come from Lipset, Bell and an entire ‘pluralist school’.[3]
Criticism

Critics of the theory have suggested that many sociologists consider the Horseshoe theory to have been discredited.[4]

In University of Reading academic Peter Barker's[5] book, GDR and Its History, Peter Thompson[6] of the University of Sheffield observes that the theory is "increasingly orthodox", and describes the theory as seeing "left and right-wing parties being closer to each other than the centre".
See also

Left-right politics
Political spectrum
Blair's Law