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World politics and the swing of a pendulum

World politics tend to have a pendulum pattern; moving from an ideological extreme left through the middle,then the extreme right. At each stage, particular countries experience roughly a decade or two before starting a swing to the other extreme. Currently, the pendulum swings to the right with nationalistic xenophobia on the rise. The current swing clears out remnants of the onetime popular left that had styled itself as progressive or revolutionary.

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