I suspect that the real phenomenon is just that it tends to be bicameral. The “left” / “right” labels are just applied to the sides.
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Hmm what other bindings can exist? Do you mean like Protestant vs Catholic in early modern Europe?
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I’ve concluded the y-axis is wrong
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This is an interesting and important question but I fear the answers might turn out to be meh silliness patterns in the weirding 1/
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Like filter bubble causing polarization and social media (subsuming news and analysis) enabling simplistic propaganda, coupled with information overload inducing shallowness.
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My guess: it was a useful heuristic and an easy to spread narrative. It appeared at the right time to benefit from mass media and state formation after WWI and WWII. Illusion of order in a post-war chaos? Check out references in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–right_political_spectrum … http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/LEQS%20Discussion%20Paper%20Series/LEQSPaper24.pdf …pic.twitter.com/Sa6ywFfzFL
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