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politics. on any political spectrum there is no origin point, there are just differences.

for example in the UK they have socialized medicine and conservative politicians run campaigns on defending that socialized institution because its popular with the public.

in america if you propose socialized medicine you would be considered a radical communist by half the population. no conservative would ever propose it. (except for military, then its ok)

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Show me your embedding from high-dimensional political belief to 1d left-right spectrum.

What you really seem to be commenting on is contextuality not the absence of a center.

Embedded or not, I still feel the absence of a center is true. The fact that "center" requires context to make sense is exactly the point. There's no clear "identity ideology," it requires an arbitrary choice.

Put another way, you can subtract/compare ideologies: "X is a bit to the left of Y" (or "X is more in favor of policy P than Y" for any P in your high-dimensional space), but adding them doesn't really make sense.

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