I made a rough Sankey diagram of contemporary US political history, ± 30 years. *handwaves what 'political energy' might mean*
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It is consistent with horseshoe theory but here it just represents empirical phenomenon of Bernie supporters defecting trumpwards.
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Love this! My map of US politics would have a lot more dead ends, but I guess when ideas die, people go somewhere
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I'd like to capture that. I am hoping to create a visualization tool that can work with spreadsheet data including deadends
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The 9->15->18->21 doesn't ring true at all
9->18 maybe, but a dead path
15->EOL
Tea Party and Trumpism/alt-right are diff paths
17 = tiny
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I'm sure I've gotten many specifics and proportions wildly wrong. I was more interested in exploring the diagraming concept than the example
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Excellent diagram. I might label 17 as "Chapo trap house" contingent, although they might be too specific
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The point of a refined version of this would be to allow zooming into precisely such details
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20 years is relatively short in history. Institutional landscapes don't change that fast. Unraveling of USSR was probably among the fastest
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