Politics isn't a straight line anymore. It’s a sphere.

We’ve been taught to see political beliefs as a straight line:

 left, center, right. But that idea is outdated.

Today, political views are more like points on a sphere. Think of a globe. At the very center of the sphere is a person who can understand and move toward any idea left, right, up, down using the same amount of effort and openness.

But once your beliefs drift toward one “side” of the sphere, let’s say the northern hemisphere, it becomes much harder to understand or even see what’s happening on the southern side. Not because it's wrong, but because it's just too far away from where you stand.

This is why sometimes, people on the far left and far right, though they seem like complete opposites, actually behave in very similar ways. They’re close on the sphere, even if they think they’re worlds apart. The differences may be more about language and emotion than real substance.

The point? Where you stand shapes what you see. And unless we rethink the way we map our beliefs, we’ll keep mistaking distance for danger, or similarity for sameness.

So maybe the future of politics isn’t about picking a side on a flat line. It’s about finding your place on a sphere—and recognizing that sometimes, what feels far might just be a different angle.