Nor does my skepticism mean it’s not a real thing. But the point is, you can’t get anywhere with armchair reasoning about the political discourse- there are just too many ways to slice it. If you really think this is worth investigating, look for patterns in the General Social Survey.
Our minds are spectacularly good at generating simple ways to categorize political debates- it’s almost as if that’s what our intelligence originally evolved to do. Just because this dichotomy feels like an epiphany to you doesn’t mean it’s there.
Nor does my skepticism mean it’s not a real thing. But the point is, you can’t get anywhere with armchair reasoning about the political discourse- there are just too many ways to slice it. If you really think this is worth investigating, look for patterns in the General Social Survey.