I've heard that when there is a shift toward a side (far-right currently), both extremes ae increasing by "nature". Don't know what to think of it exactly.
That's what I've been trying to warn this forum about.
With the increase of the far right, leftists will be forced to be radical to survive and protect people (a bit like I'm trying to do here), and the more it will go on, the stronger will be the push between one side or the other. Meanwhile centrists will feel a push toward the far right as it is there that lies their interest as idealists.
Which means that everything, from politics to social circles on internet will start to shift toward the right and the far right. It's only avoidable by creating a strong opposing force.
You can see this push toward the right happening here by the push created by far rightists and by mods shielding up when they are called out for protecting far right content.
In a few years and if nothing is done, this website will be a full on conservative center. Perhaps not far right, but clearly not progressive. It's a simple logic of power balance.