You are all wasting your time trying to explain to Mikey that the political spectrum is not a linear, left at one end and right at the other, concept. I have tried and he, either cannot or, refuses to understand the uncomfortable truth. In reality the horseshoe theory is probably the closest analogy of what is blindingly obvious to most level headed thinkers. It asserts that the far left and the far right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. Proponents of the theory point to a number of similarities between the extreme left and the extreme right, including their propensity to gravitate to authoritarianism or totalitarianism. Of course this is poo pooed by people on both ends of the political spectrum who oppose being grouped with those they consider to be their polar opposites. Well they would wouldn't they.