There are 2 components here: information (small perturbations that disturb the bead from its bottom unstable equilibrium position) and energy (specifically the energy gradient towards lowest-energy position at some angle θ off the vertical).
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Bothsidesism is the governing political symmetry of the age. To break it, arguments alone won't do (little perturbations). You need the rotational energy to create a new equilibrium lowest-energy stable point on your side. And there's one on the other side too.
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The symmetry has in fact already been broken towards the right. That's what the global ethnonational right swing is. The bead has gone to the right side of the hoop. To bring it to the other side you have to work up an energy gradient and down the other side.
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Interesting detail: it is tempting to view rotation direction as partisan polarity (for eg, you could say counterclockwise viewed from top = right wing), but it doesn't work, since the perturbation direction rather than rotation direction determines which way bead will ride up.
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Think of the perturbation as a random event, and partisanship as a competition to narrativize what happens as either good or bad. This is why issues ultimately don't matter. Immigration might turn into either a right or left wing populist cause depending on situation.
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Or you could slow the hoop down and try again. Both side are adding rotational velocity in the belief that that is the only way to bring the bead to their side. Its the wrong approach. If you could increase gravity that might also have an affect.
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Gravity might be common ground.
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If in this analogy rotational velocity is partisanship. What is gravity?
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