SLCW on Nostr: That's true. For some people, they do take on the underlying beliefs of the ...

That's true. For some people, they do take on the underlying beliefs of the extremists, becoming extremists themselves. But I believe that if you were able to sit everyone down one-on-one and question them not about their political identity, but about their views on specific issues, the result would be a majority objectively landing somewhere in the space between far-left and far-right. Extremism may be their outward identity, but querying their specific beliefs would reveal more nuance, and a complex identity that can't be lumped into either extreme.