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1/ Okay, let's do this right. Ideologies are complex combinations of utopian aspirations and realist calculations
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3/ Both are important. Imaginary part anchors the ideological narrative. Real part is anchor reality for adversarial political negotiations
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7/ Subtle implication: regular being on right half means status quo is unstable by definition in complex analysis terms
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8/ Fringe though they may seem at present, the position of alts in left half plane means they represent emerging stability centers
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9/ Math-literate will ask: why don't poles exist in symmetric pairs about x-axis? Because net political eqn at any time not necessarily real
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10/ That said, poles do exist in approximate symmetric pairs if they have serious heft. So Berniesm is approx mirror of Trumpism.
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12/ Didn't have room for more examples, but blockchain utopianism is a pole pair at +/- 90 deg. +90="going Galt", -90="Hanseatic league"
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