Had an interesting thought inspired by symmetry breaking in physics. Like a hoop rotating about its diameter with a bead at the bottom. At some point as rotation speed increases, the bead will ride up one side or the other breaking the symmetry.
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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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