Left, Right and Center: A Reference

This entry serves as a reference whenever someone replies to me saying that they're disengaged from the left and right discourse. I'm never sure how folks come across those terms for themselves. But prior to my adoption, I did look into the genesis of the term. This begins with the world's online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The terms "left" and "right" come from the "traditional" model of political identification, classification and alignment of one's party, stances or ideals. You'd think that this means journalists would use this classification more. It's not uncommon, though, to see left-wing groups pick up right-wing talking points and visa versa. This makes it a bit irrelevant to use as a label as a whole unless you're willing to "root out impurities".

As with some things dealing with the modern logos of politics, this began in France. In reflection of today to no irony, a deputy, the Baron de Gauville, explained: "We began to recognize each other: those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp". This is part of the reason in legacy media, you'll see some left-wing folks call Democrats within the United States a right-centrist party: their loyalties in the corpo-party routines align with these stances. However, the right-wing party double downs and embraces these stances as part of their identity.

Another weakness of the institution of bipartisanship in the United States is the guise of neutrality of their actions. The idea that an elephant and a donkey, or more accurately, the reinforcement of Confederate ideals and the layover of American nationalism infused with a perversion of what the Harriet Tubman-inspired Combahee Collective defined as identity politics, can work together on common stances is only possible if it's in favor of aggressive concessions towards conservative stances. Examples of this entail things like their stances of Medicare in the past and that of Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.

Words have meaning and the corporate Internet strongly wants you to divorce us from understanding the socio-etymology of them for the sake of squabbling and juicing traffic. Even on platforms that don't have direct monetization, if it's powered by venture capital (like BlueSky and Instagram), the point is to keep people using it such that they can justify raising more (and more) money.