Rather than get bogged in detail about left and right in politics it's sometimes helpful to think as "a center" as a noun, like nation, and function.  This helps stem broken dam, bursting pipes, and stabilize sink holes.

  In Old Europe politics came about as the non-royalty (the masses) began to have "voice" about being "subjects" subjected to the sovereignty of nation.  When we fast forward to the late 1800's and first half of the 1900's we find that the alternatives in the world produced by commerce and trade (including religion and education for money) generated so-called "power struggle".  And within the total picture of struggle for resource and settlement "vibes" took hold which magnetized people to people in association and also in reaction to each other.

  Passmore classifies a character of history -- Lenin, as "a quintessential generalist" and this is important when we look at the times he lived in (and like character-people such as Hitler and Mussolini) because his ability to work his way into leadership came about due to power struggle replacing function.  Lenin and others like him were able to develop and pitch ideas and ideology because of weakness in function.  The same weakness that had made room for hate and violence.  For example, Passmore tells of an awful competition in Academia which pitted person against person in purporting "science" so that a weakness in group-approved teaching allowed for hate groups (that's a contemporary word, not revisionist) to use the education system's license to fortify a methodology like eugenics.

  A generalist using specialized material in thought and action allows for a gamut of activity to happen, just as an ideologist teaming up with thugs does.

  This morning a preacher on the U.S. AM radio talked about the critcal-ness of "home" to keeping nation sovereign.  As Ronald Reagan had spoken of thousands of lights in the world, many individuals keeping the faith and working "programs" of promises made, promises kept the preacher celebrated our homes and us as the faithful being links in the kind of human chain that at once liberates and holds us to foundation.  Great leaders like Winston Churchill at Dunkirk rallied the same.

  To someone in the media field, yesterday, saying this feels like 1943, yes!  Someone out here heard you and finds what you said relevant.  Thank you.

When you think about it, home is what saved Christianity.  As what was the Roman Empire fell into chaos and power-struggle over what might "save".... brutality surfaced as the evil du jour: the way to "solve" too many people--scarcity of resource; who exactly was going to be number 1; who could benefit and who not .... the first disciples of Christ had to "have Church" in peoples' homes!  Christianity was person-to-person before it was Sacrament and institution.