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The point is rather that everyone's views are not on a straight line between two points (though, vectors being neat, everyone's views can be projected onto any line). Not on a line between two political views: complete the pattern: "Nobody is exactly on a line between two political views."
For how large n can this be generalized to "any n political views form a hyperplane on which no other political view held by any person exactly lies"?
d-1, at least.
Given that political views can be arbitrary propositions, at some point thinking of them as embedded in n-dimensional space for some n stops being useful.