@kino While I would agree that the extremes of the spectrum (basically anyone in the USA who considers themselves repulican or democrat) are more similar than those in the middle (this is called horseshoe theory), that isnt the same as saying they cant be distinguished.
Their policies are very much distinguishable even if both are oppressive.
One obvious examples is guns, you can distinguish between the groups with pretty good accuracy just by asking their stance on guns.
I don't talk with a lot of extreme right wing people, but most of my friends seem to be pretty far left, like, anything from 'abolish the commodity form' to 'mao zedong and stalin did nothing wrong' (unfortunately) and it seems to me that most of them view democrats as centrist to moderate in either direction. (granted most of them also hate liberals, sometimes, stupidly, more than fascists) but you are definitely right that their view of republicans is often heavily skewed in the fascist direction.
though there have been some steaming hot takes about obama being worse than bush XD
@freemo @kino
the only similarity I mentioned is that they both think the normal range of political ideas are more centrist than anything. that doesn't speak to their broader political ideas, only their relationship to mainstream political ideas.