Extremes and their middles

So the essay below had a first draft and I wanted to show Jack the first draft because he happened to mention a theme from it. Here it is.

Stephen King had a story and I can't remember which one where the main character looks in the mirror and contemplates the terminator. The terminator in this case was the line on the moon that separated light and darkness. You know how the moon always "has its back to the sun"? One side of the moon always wrapped in darkness, the other always basking in the light? Well, that sort of equator of the moon was King's contemplation.

In ideologies, this terminator also exists. Instead of a line with one extreme on one end and one on the other, there is a circle with the most extreme ideology curving into it's own self.

To kill this with metaphor, ideology is an ouroboros, a snake eating it's own tail.

So an extreme right wing is identical to an extreme left wing. Your closest proof can be a Christian man who protests killing a child by killing a doctor. Your closest proof can be an anti-war liberal at a peace rally throwing a molotov cocktail. In fact, even in the semantics, if abortion were marketed correctly, it'd be the focal point of the ACLU. A child's right to commit suicide if she realized she wasn't necessary on the planet.

Here's where I stopped, but now I'm gonna continue for THIS blog cuz now I'm all up in the circle thing.

So who are our two parties? Could the true donkey and elephant be an average and a line? Here's what I mean. If we take this circle and just shift those two polar opposite on it 90 degrees, we see that the extremes are the median and the space between far right and far left. A moderate you can't figure out (Condit?) is the true voice of the people. And who else? Who is this terminator that is ALSO the true voice of the people (so wish Arnold worked just for the cheap joke I could make here). Hm, actually maybe he is. His wife and father are very much an influence on him being the closest to that.

But I'm getting on a tangent. What is this terminator? Kinda scary. How could both extremes co-exist in one ideology? But if it's a circle and not a line, this point must be definable. It need not exist (a true median certainly doesn't), but it must be definable.

And here is where I stop again.

I won't have time to research my two example, so the contest is over for me. But I had a hoot trying (and still trying) to figure it out.