Hey, if you're going to correct me on semantics, you should at least spell it right!

I understand your point, and while I'm certainly aware of the history involved in the terminology of rightist and leftist politics, I'd have to also agree with your following statement that those terms have been mutated and bastardized so that they no longer have even remotely the same meanings that they did then, despite people's efforts to try to convince the rabble that they do.

We actually had a big discussion on here before you joined about what said terms actually represent now, but no one came to any good conclusion. I don't think that there really is a good definition now. They've long since become moving targets and any shot that gets one is likely to get the other, too (to extend a metaphor beyond its breaking point).

If only we could modify our voting system to use more mathematically accurate methods we could avoid having the two-party systems that prevent many of the voting irregularities inherent in the plurality voting methods we use now, and get rid of all this party and left/right nonsense. I have similar views on movie ratings, too, but that's an argument for another day.