Doug
You started your post calling my viewpoint “unusual” and this only reinforces my perception of you as an acute observer.
Thomas Kuhn, the great philosopher of science of the last century, would certainly call this replacement of the political spectrum (right/left) by the level of allegiance to the central values of the democratic state determined through a direct comparison between issues/principles, a paradigm shift, that is, a radical change in the basic notions and principles through which reality is understood. In our case, political reality.
You started your post calling my viewpoint “unusual” and this only reinforces my perception of you as an acute observer.
Thomas Kuhn, the great philosopher of science of the last century, would certainly call this replacement of the political spectrum (right/left) by the level of allegiance to the central values of the democratic state determined through a direct comparison between issues/principles, a paradigm shift, that is, a radical change in the basic notions and principles through which reality is understood. In our case, political reality.