I think horseshoe theory doesnt make sense. Especially today when politicians dont even follow principles anymore and dont respect their promises. They work in their interest and their beliefs. Western world suffers a lot from that.
I see that the current neoliberal order has similarities to aristocratic regimes. Instead of being upfront that they are aristocrats, now they move from parties, institutions, roles. They arent PMs or Presidents forever but they still control a lot from behind the curtain. Especially in the cultural sense.
It's a mix of harmful moderation (no firm stance or respect on principles) and forced ideological orthodoxy. The issue today is that regimes dont do that anymore transparently, they merged the government with corporate world and persecute the infidels through "corporation rights to ban you" "laws that are applied only to alt right and not all people breaking that law."
If some clear injustice happened to the second class citizen, they will not care, but they will surely care about their protected groups. Orthodoxy is always imposed over the citizens and rivals of the current order, while they get away with breaking it. One example is Green New Deal. If they followed their principles and truly believed in that, they would actually go after China and India, they would reject using renewables and use nuclear, they would let people use old cars. Instead they go to performative actions that are either in their benefit of them or make them look better. All those end up worse for all citizens immediately, but at a certain point it will bite in the ass the political class.
My biggest confusion is that they all do these schemes but they dont see how it harms them or are idiots. Its like they dont care if themselves or their own descendants will suffer from the consequences of their actions. They care about short term gains.
After all it seems that the West breaks all principles. It doesnt fully follow free market principles (only for the rich). It contradicts socialist principles (performative help for immigrants and poor countries while oppressing the native citizen), violates democratic principles (rejecting a voted candidate). The Western world LARPS as Democracy, Socialism, Free market, but they arent either one of them. But people still believe in those lies.
One example I think is how corporate executives enjoy enshittifying their own products. Its like they enjoy using their slop (it doesnt matter they have perpetual access, they use an inferior, slower, buggier product).
How do apple executives employees and other companies enjoy limiting themselves to wireless headsets that are inferior to better wired headsets, having to charge the headphones or the phone if using the dongle.
How do the media conglomerate executives enjoy having their audio destroyed by loudness war. Do they exclusively limit to old releases or they enjoy their shit?
How do Adobe executives and employees enjoy using their shitty software.
How do car companies employees enjoy having ugly cars?
Its the same thing with politicians.