[piasa]

Another dynamic that’s still important today, which you trace to this time and place, has to do with the ideological spectrum in American politics. A lot of people have argued before that the U.S. doesn’t really have a left; it has a center-left that is pretty similar to the center-right in a lot of Western European democracies (Democratic Party), and it has a right and far-right (the GOP); but no left.

It's as if the American leftists are children who live in another fantasy universe all by themselves, one they alone define, perpetually pretending that they created civilization and this civilization is being invaded by barbarians from outer space...[whose ideological base is actually much older and more mature than their own.]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

For them, everything must be politicized, with Climate Change as their faith - the structural “cathedral” for healing what ails us, where all social wrongs will be put right and ensure good social order - where there can be no debate to slow down their march to global governance.