5/ Why are regular and alt on the real axis? Because alt and regular are always in tug-o-war for future.
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6/ This is a *complex* plane, not a regular 2x2. Don't try to read it like one.
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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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11/ Fun uses: to learn how in-group talks aspirationally within itself, project to y-axis. To learn how they are seen, project to x-axis.
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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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13/ Final point. Obviously, I'm at the origin of this complex plane. A pure integrator

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14/ Okay, final final point: Overton window is a box about the origin...height=what you can talk about publicly. Width=what you can act on.
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15/ Final final final point: children have purely imaginary friends. Grownups have complex friends. 
. But enemies know the real you.
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This statement is eternal. The struggle for determination of the enemy is the oddity that is politics. That is what I got out of this.
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