Outcomes of Societal Disequilibrium: The Model Carefully Refined
The model by which one understands ideological instability at tumultuous times involves something called the abnegation of the center. When a country's center has abnegated, this situation is identical to one in which the average person perceives the political center as incapable of solving the country's problems as well as morally bankrupt. The center -- mainstream society and institutions more broadly and the political class more narrowly -- is in this fractious situation both incapable and corrupt. This abnegation of the center, alongside the recognition of the same by the average person on one level or another, results in an obvious increase in far right, far center, and far left ideological agitation and action. If the societal instability increases, then the far right, far center, and far left will essentially smell blood in the water. They will thus not only look for opportunities to dethrone the political center whose abnegation has opened up the possibility of doing s...