There is no political division and inflation does not have physical properties of adhesiveness.

I was listening to the radio the other day, there was an author on a show talking about how important reading fiction is in feeding the imagination to equip us with reacting to situations through metaphors and allegory. Forgot the authors name, but he went on to say how online forums, commenting back and forth, as opposed to longer formats of receptive skills and productive composition have formed a less balanced dynamic for discussion.

He mentioned Horseshoe Theory. I first heard of that a few years ago and seemed an exact fit to my mental model. Not just in terms of individual or group think but more that the definitions of Left and Right are losing meaning in general, centrism is also null and the whole spectrum has now become moot and only serves as a soundbite to divide or muddy the water when resolution on individual policies is the only way left to hold meaningful conversation, or hold a candidate or party to task.

I guess that's mostly just identity politics versus specific policy-based voting. But the point I was trying to get at was the marriage of these bogus soundbites. Jawboning about inflation or sticky inflation is the same thing, it's deflecting from the underlying issue of monetary debasement and purchasing power. Government spending and inability to budget.

I don't know where I'm going with this, just wanted to vent. Whenever I'm hearing a distance modifier prefixed to the direction of political spectrum, I feel it's working on my subconscious in the same way that repeated advertisements work.