Thanks so much for this response @pieternijmeijer ! I agree with most of it because I agree that the whole left-right debate is about gradations and always in flux; Obama was basically a 1990s Republican. Still I wouldn't call this debate antiquated or irrelevant or confusing. On the contrary; it gives us the basic rhetorical tools to have a meaningful discussion about opposing basic world-views. Leftists aren't automatically Marxists, but they are always concerned about "the common good", and right wingers aren't automatically fascists, but their concern leans much more to the individual, individual freedom and individual responsibility.
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