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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

While this is somewhat true, in all of the west there are only 3 groups currently : liberals, fascists and leftists.

Liberals are a diverse group, ranging from socio-democrat and liberal green parties to libertarian who leans on fascism.

Fascists are all the brands of conservatives who leverage racism, authoritarianism and nationalism.

Leftists are basically the groups opposed to both fascism and liberalism.

Those are 3 objective groups. They are the groups that determine how likely they will cooperate or oppose each other, or how elections will turn.

Some parties will be a bit in between, but that's merely political communication. In practice a group that promote itself as a middle group is actually leaning right. This means that "leftist liberals" (who range from some green parties and movements to the socio-democrats) will always pick liberals if they must choose between them and the left. Likewise, conservatives and libertariens are leaning toward fascism when given the choice.

The political spectrum is radicalised and triparted. You can deny this model and blur the information, but it usually means that you are leaning more to the right than you are pretending.