Calling it Left and Right was a bad idea. So many want to be on the Right side that it seems most call anyone they disagree with Left. I'm so tired of politics being a team sport instead of trying to make things better/safer/easier for everyone.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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Should we have used westeros instead.?
Mildly interesting: The origin of the right/left spectrum comes from the National Assembly in France from 1789, where the social-liberal Democrats ("radicals") sat on the left, while the conservative aristocrats sat on the right. It goes even deeper, as the right side depicts also the "right hand" of the king.
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Exactly. It's not a matter of black and white, of winning or losing even. It's about what do we do with the resources we have for benefit of the most people in the short and long term. This has been long lost in politics. 😖
Left/right is as good as conservative/liberal or progressive/regressive, but they all do kinda suck.
The worst part is when someone thinks left/right must always be from an absolute (European) perspective, and thus places two politicians in different countries both arguing for the same new outcome -- like say, "$30/hour minimum wage" -- as equivalent even though the status quo is different in both -- "go up from $10/hour" vs "go down from $50/hour"
I've always preferred left/right being a purely economic distinction and authoritarian/libertarian being the up/down axis. The politicql compass is still not perfect but it's leagues better than trying to sort all the various economic and sociological differences into just two.
Team sport is the human nature though...
Which is why I think human evolved wrong, we should throw it and start over.
What's you evidence that it's human nature and not just cultural?
Groups of humans have fought each other since time immemorial, I think that's a pretty strong case for human nature.
You're doing a hell of a lot of conflating there, bud