Editing Social Enlightenment Thought (section)

=== Horseshoe Theorems ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! American Left !! American Right
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| Appeal-to-nature environmentalism || Appeal-to-nature traditionalism
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| Bio-evolutionary Darwinism || Socio-economic Darwinism
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| Food/drug health || Food/drug health (allegedly, selectively)
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| Hippie/Bohemian luddism/homeopathy/anti-consumerism (some) || Rural-agrarian luddism/homeopathy/anti-consumerism (most)
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| Science tech-acceleration (most) || Corpo tech-acceleration (some)
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| Urban city pollution || Factory/fuel pollution
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| Worker-centric unions || Worker-centric industrialism/protectionism
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| Wage-centric purchasing power || Cost-centric purchasing power (allegedly)
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| Anti-discrimination meritocracy || Anti-quota meritocracy
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| Economic paternalism || Cultural paternalism (selectively)
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| Drug/sex/identity liberty || Speech (selectively)/gun liberty
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| Gun-control security || Anti-riot security (selectively)
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| Anti-police establishment || Anti-fed establishment
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| Anti-billionaire/1%/CEO/donor-class elites || Anti-deep state/globalist/Hollywood elites
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| "Release the Epstein files" || "Release the Epstein files" (allegedly)
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| Fear-mongering (bottom-up) || Fear-mongering (top-down)
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| Constitutionalism (currently) || Constitutionalism (formerly)
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| Hippie pacifism (formerly) || Nationalist pacifism (allegedly, selectively)
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| Cosmopolitan/globalist "dove" interventionism (currently) || Neoconservative "hawk" interventionism ("formerly")
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| Anti-Semitic anti-Zionists (some) || Anti-Semitic Neo-Nazis (some)
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| Religious discrimination (sans Islam) || Religious discrimination (sans Christianity)
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| Humanist moralism || Religious moralism
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| "Science > faith" || "Facts > feelings"
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| Social justice || Criminal justice
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| Anti-capital punishment/vegan pro-life || Anti-abortion pro-life
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| Age-gap relations child protection || Family-value child protection
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| Counter-cultural nonconformity (arguably) || Counter-cultural nonconformity (arguably)
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| Anti-gamer feminism (some) || Anti-gamer puritanism (declining)
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| Anti-porn feminism (some) || Anti-porn puritanism (most)
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| Sex-positive feminism (most) || Pro-harem red pill (some)
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| Misandrist sexism (some) || Misogynist sexism (some)
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| Reverse-racism (some) || Systemic racism (some)
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| SJWs (some) || Karens (some)
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|}

Note: The idea of a Horseshoe Theory is by nature crude, broad, and contentious, but its usage here is to outline the idea of "intertwined yet arbitrarily-selected" ideological frameworks between US political parties (not to imply "BOth SiDes aRE JUsT aS bAD"). Anyone may make what they will of this information and what might be done about it.