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I actually find this talking point so braindead that, to this day, I still have a hard time believing that people genuinely believe it. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes while they can be definitively left or right. It is not ultimately important to them which they are. As you said it's all about maintaining control and power. And if they believe it would be better for them to maintain control and power. They would happily switch from capitalist to communist or vice versa. So I guess at least on an economic standpoint. Is probably most accurate to say that authoritarians are centrist. But boy won't that piss off all the people who believe they're centrists. It's just that on social axis authoritarians are extreme.