I agree because I get sick also of people saying “buh buh buh the Nazis were the REAL lefties.” They weren’t. But it doesn’t matter. At the far ends of the left wing and the right wing it does not form a continuum, it forms a circle.
IIRC, it has been shown that on lots of measures, the extremes are closer to each other than to the middle.
That’s what makes me not use right/left any more. Tyranny is tyranny, and socialist and communist to me are very similar, just a continuum. Right and left originated, from what I have read, from the French Revolution. (link describes). To me they mean little to nothing any more. Same thing with “conservative” and “liberal”. Dems are not “liberal”, they’re tyrannical maniacs who espouse socialism/communism/globalism”, and the meaning of “conservative” is so diluted and RINO’ed and Bill Kristol’ed that it means nothing to me any more. For years, if I have to describe my political ideology, it’s “constitutionalist”.
So the French thing meant, basically, “right” supported aristocracy and monarchy to one degree or another, and “left” mean mob rule, resulting in the excesses that so entranced the Bolsheviks. The French revolutionaires used the word “communes” but I don’t know what they meant; I’m sure half the posters on this thread (or 9/10) know much more about this than I do.
Today the terms “left wing” and “right wing” are used as symbolic labels for liberals and conservatives, but they were originally coined in reference to the physical seating arrangements of politicians during the French Revolution. The split dates to the summer of 1789, when members of the French National Assembly met to begin drafting a constitution. The delegates were deeply divided over the issue of how much authority King Louis XVI should have, and as the debate raged, the two main factions each staked out territory in the assembly hall. The anti-royalist revolutionaries seated themselves to the presiding officer’s left, while the more conservative, aristocratic supporters of the monarchy gathered to the right. “I tried to sit in different parts of the hall and not to adopt any marked spot, so as to remain more the master of my opinion,” one right-wing baron wrote, “but I was compelled absolutely to abandon the left or else be condemned always to vote alone and thus be subjected to jeers from the galleries.”