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True, the left-right cleavage remains salient in many countries.
A third possibility is that society’s most distinctive ethnic or racial cleavage aligns with the divide that separates the masses from the propertied elite.
The cleavage lies in a very different visions about the state and it goes beyond questions about how to divide America’s budget surplus between increased spending or cutting taxes.
The Huffington Post, an otherwise rational publication, ran a report about German Chancellor Angela Merkel under the headline “Merkel’s cleavage takes center stage in German elections,” while anti-Merkel bloggers have called attention to Merkel’s “attractiveness gap.”
So why is it still acceptable to run public commentary about the state of Merkel’s cleavage, or Hillary Clinton’s ankles?
Often this social “divide” intersects with the Sunni-Alevi cleavage, as the Alevis have increasingly aligned themselves with the political left.
In the 1980’s, there were no beggars on city streets, and the main social cleavage divided the small number of politically well-connected people, who enjoyed a privileged lifestyle, from everyone else.
But is politics really turning the page on the traditional right-left cleavage?
If globalization is becoming the main electoral cleavage in Western countries, these two camps, the logic goes, are likely to split and form new political families.
Yet, while I believe there will be some movement in this direction, the traditional left-right cleavage seems unlikely to disappear.
This cleavage now seems set to shape not only Germany’s future coalition government, but the future of politics across Europe.
Thus, despite today's political quiet, major cleavage between apparently unchallenged leaders and shifting popular moods may be gaining strength below the surface.
Unlike in the West, where, broadly, a left-right socioeconomic cleavage shapes politics, the main split in the post-communist democracies is between proponents of an open versus a closed society.
This has created a generational cleavage that can be seen in the Catalonia debate within the Spanish Socialist Party: while the old guard staunchly defends Spain’s constitutional order, the party’s younger members have taken a more ambiguous position.
It is this cleavage that defines the intellectual battle now taking place in and around Europe.
But the protracted conflict contributed to the decline of both empires and devastated Iraq, leaving behind a deep sectarian cleavage.
But the cleavage between the two lefts in Latin America is steadily deepening.
But what if countries that are on opposite sides of one cleavage are on the same side of another?
European heads of state are meeting to discuss her proposed European Green Deal, a sweeping project that could either unite the European Union and strengthen its position on the world stage, or generate a new intra-European political cleavage that leaves the bloc fractured and vulnerable.
But the cleavage that matters most today is between pro- and anti-European forces.
The South, with its history of slavery and Jim Crow, is where this cleavage runs deepest.
He understood this by a tormenting sensation of cleavage which he experienced at that moment.
"Well then, for this cleavage from top to bottom," continued Master Pedro, taking up the split Emperor Charlemagne, "it would not be much if I were to ask five reals and a quarter."
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