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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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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