The Left Right Horseshoe

It is important to understand that the left to right spectrum is not a straight line but bent like a horseshoe, such that Fascism (far right) and Communism (far left) are ideologically closer than the right and left. This is a well researched but less commonly understood theory of French writer Jean Pierre Faye. And just like a horseshoe magnet exerts its magnetic pull strongly owing to this particular shape, so do far right and far left politics on people hold much greater influence than their more moderate colleagues. The fear of both these extremes have been evident in history, particularly the West's fear and appeasement of Nazism, which, following the latter's defeat in Germany, was immediately replaced by a fear of Communism. This has held true no matter which side the polity was bent during different Governments on the American content - Right or Left. As a corollary, the Far Left and Far Right are much more ideologically predisposed to form working alliances, than the members preceding them on the spectrum, who, in whichever democracy you consider, never seem to come together on anything and paralyse effective collaborative work. History has shown, that Hitler was far more effective in forming these working relationships with Stalin's Soviet Union in the East, than what he could ever hope for in the culturally and geographically closer England and France. His miscalculated invasion of the Soviets, never really helped cement any alliances of the West with Communism, but only opened Germany's west-facing bulwark against invasion. The important lesson  for people here is this. The Left and Right have to understand the importance of coming together as the people who represent them are not extremists but effective, functioning moderates who live in collaborative societies, despite fundamental differences in how they view social and economic inequality! Clearly, the Right will continue to see inequality as a necessary and even desirable condition, which the Left will always see as evil, but amongs it's adherents, everyone collaborates in real life in spite of the ideological differences! The failure of this collaboration by their representative in Parliament, is what makes extremism, whether in left or right form, an ever present danger in every democracy in the world. Sadly, foolish people are condemned to repeat the fallacies of history. And that is what still leaves humans searching for answers when they thought they knew it all.