One reason that the political polarity remains unseen by so many is because when it comes to Left and Right, most people are just winging it.
In fact, they have been ‘winging’ it for so long that they are at last coming to realize that each political wing is not so different from the other. U.S. General Michael Flynn has called on Americans to stop playing “this political two-party game” which, of course, was a sarcastic reference to what has been called a ‘Uniparty.’
But the only way to stop playing the ‘Uniparty’ game is to stop ‘winging it’ in the political arena. What is required is a two party polarity, not party wings. That’s because Left ‘wing’ and Right ‘wing’ are not so different from each other. Instead of representing individual rights and justice, each ‘wing’ represents a different interest group.
Traditionally, Left-wing groups restrict economic choices, limit trade and monopolize labor, while Right-wing groups restrict personal choices, control trade, and monopolize business. Those who claim to be ‘middle-of-the-road’ simply do both, and the ‘road’ all of them are on leads directly to the polarity of the Left.
The ‘Uniparty,’ as many have come to call it, arose on the Left as a failure of recognizing the missing polarity on the Right. An American party of principle that consistently upholds individual rights, freedom of speech, individual freedom, capitalism, and individual justice has yet to be founded.
But awakening to the fact that Left and Right are opposite polarities, not wings of a single polarity, is the first step one must take to move in the Right direction. It is also a painful awakening for many, particularly for those on the Right.
In their attempt to politically defeat the manifestations of the Left – communism, socialism, fascism, etc. – many on the Right try to avoid the use of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ only to find themselves continually forced to do so in the absence of clear definitions.
In the binary world of electoral politics, it’s not about ‘we the people’ versus ‘authoritarianism’ or other terms being used to substitute for the Left; it’s about ‘we the people on the Right’ versus ‘they the people on the Left.’ Since all things Left are predicated on violence-based ideologies, any efforts by the Right towards political compromise or ‘working together’ become an impossibility without further moving Leftward.
Given that the Left has been successful at associating those on the Right with supposed ‘extremism’, racism and violence, it is understandable that many feel uncomfortable at being so labeled. For them, it is far better to be seen in the ‘center’ of any polarities, rather than be forced to directly confront or defend them.
There is a subtle irony in the fact that so many prefer to be identified with the ‘center’ of an imagined political spectrum. That’s because to be objectively ‘centered,’ one must enter the very polarized ‘Goldilocks zone’ – where it is “not too hot, not too cold, but Just Right.”
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