I wouldn't call this moderate, but it is technically left-of-center

No you don’t understand! It’s my god given right as an American to be the boot someday. It’ll happen any day now, I know it.

Not sure what hierarchy you're referring to, but I'll assume government, then talk about why everyone seems so extreme. and where moderateness comes into play.
The desire for smaller government (or larger) is neither left or right wing exclusive. If you think of it as a political compass (though it shouldn't be permanently applied in such a manner as there are multiple categories of policy surrounding government) Authoritarianism (hierarchy) is the north and anarchy or lack of government is the absence of such a hierarchy. Most leftists find themselves mid-left and somewhere mid anarchy, which isn't to say they are anarchists or just straight leftists.

It simply means they are of center, to the left. This means that foor every left policy they have, there is a number (however small) of right wing policies that they embrace. The application and labeling the left as the "Radical Left" is complete and utter bullshit. By this definition, I mean it's patently false. The illusion of Leftist radicalism stems from the the authoritarian tendencies of the right which creates a greater distance between the left and the right to be essentially the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle.

Assume you're on -5x left, and -5y anarchy.(-5,-5) and your right wing counterpart is (5,5) (positive) (A^2*B^2=C^2) Since we have a difference of 10 on x, and a difference of 10 on Y, that means the justified distance is 14,142y. However, since we are diametrically opposed in the vertical and horizontal scales, we seem super extremist to each other, even though the majority of everyone involved in the discussion are moderate within their own field.

Centrists, in the literal sense of policies they identify with, in my experience and observations, are a dying breed. A lot of people like to claim centrist, but because of the polarization due to culture wars, the line is pretty extreme to be center on these days.

Ooh, a word problem!

-- and my condolences on Cad Bane.

Dude was 80 years old, 10 years beyond duros avg life span.. He died as he should have - in battle.

I can't help but feel he was Whorfed, though.

Pythagorean Theorem gives the linear distance from one point to another on this grid to show the effective distance in political alignment from one point to another. So even though, we're all 5 units away from any given center, among these two axes, our divide is actually greater than 5, or even 10. What we appear to one another is being closer to 14.142 units.

Take the moderate right. He sees himself as 5,5 if the effective distance from his point to ours (the left - -5,-5) it seems to him (without realizing it) that we're radicals since we are so opposed across both political ideological axes. (14.1) So, this moderate will see this great discrepancy and take it as we're the radical left. When, in reality, we aren't.

But the point I was making was that the Original Meme Poster said that it's "Moderate but technically left of center." Which, in the colloquial definitions of politics, isn't really accurate as the left is in reference to liberal versus conservative policies. Both conservatives and liberals can be complete authoritarians or complete anarchists. So, to say that [reference: original meme] is left of center, isn't entirely accurate.

I think you might have misread the title. I actually don't consider my opinion to be moderate. I'm an anarchist in a pretty holistic sense, meaning I apply the classic "authority is not self-justifying" argument to any and all power structures. That's why I didn't mention a specific one in the meme.

Now, in true anarchist fashion, I haven't read very much theory, so I could have my definitions wrong, but by my current understanding of the terminology, the position I hold is a leftist one.

Okay cool. All I was saying is that Anarchy itself is neither left or right. It is just anarchy. I'm not sure anarchy falls un the axis with authoritarian though. That's just a guess. Often, people put liberty as the opposition to authoritarian.

Assuming the hierarchy he was talking about was government structure in the first place. Could be economical, or sociological, etc.

That's a good thought. I can't stand that congress is exempt from some of the laws they pass.