Politics in the US truly is not Right - Left. That is a hold over from 1789 France King Louis 16th days, a convenience of terms. The enlightened sat on one side and the status quo sat on the other of the king. The US Congress picked up the practice. Politics is more like a star chart with ideas all over the place. Each party grabs ideas here and there, with it changing person to person within the party. Parties over lap in ideals, pulling ideas from the same places as well as other. I grab from the area where Libertarians, Constitutionalist, Conservatives, Republicans do. Truth is Democrats, Green and Liberals pull from some of these same areas as Libertarians, Conservatives, Republicans and Constitutionalist.
The Right - Left denotation only gives ammunition to the 2 party system to fend off the rise of other parties and polarize the citizenry. In recent years it has been very effective in reducing civil debate and finding common ground to govern. The powers to be in the Democratic and Republican Parties spew out the same drivel that multi party systems are too inefficient to govern.
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