My sense is that there’s a big difference between:
”The clear best guess we have is that the Earth is the center of the universe; it makes the most sense with everything we see.”
and
“The Earth is definitely the center of the universe, and just in case you weren’t sure, also God said so explicitly when he put us here.”
...and that the difference lines up closely with what I, at least, am gesturing at when I use the word “crazy.”
So in a polity like the USA I could easily see that the parties would move to position where, in the extreme, they are talking to completely different groups of people who would never vote for the other party. Here the bit is getting them to vote when they were not voting before. That would produce a bar-bell type graph of position on the left-right spectrum with an increasingly larger gap between the peaks of the curves.
Makes sense to me as an alternate dynamic that would explain a lot of the same facts.
My sense is that there’s a big difference between:
”The clear best guess we have is that the Earth is the center of the universe; it makes the most sense with everything we see.”
and
“The Earth is definitely the center of the universe, and just in case you weren’t sure, also God said so explicitly when he put us here.”
...and that the difference lines up closely with what I, at least, am gesturing at when I use the word “crazy.”
Makes sense to me as an alternate dynamic that would explain a lot of the same facts.