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This is a very US centric concept, though. Whereas the original question was far more generic.

Anecdotally, this is something I notice in Europe, too.

I moved to Germany and find they are quite outspoken with enforcing community norms

There is far more division, in Europe too, certainly.

But most European countries have far more plurality in their party systems. Main exception being Britain, with a two party system, but they don't even want to be European.

So in Europe there's certainly a strong left and right. Just also a lot in-between. Not black-white, binary, but a spectrum of colors, analogue.

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