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Thursday, December 10, 2015

A Polarized View

All of this talk of Trump and Hillary reminded me of a conversation I had years ago -- mostly with myself, but originally posted here. It even fits with Shouting Thomas's "Big D vs Big C" theory (Big DC?). In the following scheme, think of Trump as one pole and Hillary as the other:
The polarized ends of the spectrum are actually surrounded by smaller, oppositely charged entities:
A coterie of independent detractors surrounds each extreme. They serve an important purpose: they neutralize some of the raw charge of the extreme. They also prevent direct and destructive collisions and arcing between the polarized ends. They are part of free speech and they ultimately help to unbend the spectrum, to relax it back to a more linear shape.
 Where do you lie along the continuum connecting the extremes?