One thing to consider is that reality is a consequence of interactions, tensions and balance, as opposed to this materialist ideology of some actual substance.

It's positive and negative charge.

How does this apply to liberals and conservatives, for instance? Given the reality is they swirl around and often individuals will move around the spectrum, then the question might be, what is the spectrum?

As youth tends to be equated with liberalism, while age tends to be equated with conservatism, what are the properties of youth versus age?

Possibly energy and experience.

One is driven by the potential of the future, while the other is informed by the experience of the past.

Given we live in the present, both tend to affect us all, so why the polarization?

Possibly because we try to describe it in monolithic terms, where one side must be right, so the other is wrong.

I could go on, but there is way too much cultural baggage to really peel away.

Consider though, that logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it. Absolutes are elemental, ideals are aspirational. If the philosophers can't see that, don't expect them to contextualize ideologies.

Also, synchronization is centripetal, while harmonization is centrifugal. So, nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems.

As ideologies tend to do centripetal, find what their energy sources are, like heat driving a storm and where they tend to express that collected energy.

Sometimes it can be re-directed and sometimes it just has to burn out.