Left/Right makes it seem like there is a natural 50-50 split in the collective psyche. There isn’t. The human psyche is default right-wing. Varied liberalisms have acquired a persistent foothold only in last 200 years because they are an adaptive memetic mutation for modernity.
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You could even say that liberalism (everything from classical liberalism to social democrat flavors) exists in the epistemic cracks of conservatism like grass in the cracks between flagstones. It is sustained by the failures of conservatism in describing the world.
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Poor metaphor then. The tile is an ingroup.
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