Memes

Perhaps once upon a time left and right simply represented two ideological extremes, but today that is not what it means. If you were to ask people on the street what the other side is, are they more likely to say "Oh that's just my friends that happen to believe something different" or "Those evil fuckers are ruining the world and getting in my way"? In my experience, it's overwhelming the later.

The question of who should be in power should exclusively be answered by the people as a collective whole regardless of personal opinions. It should never be answered by vaguely definable groups having a pissing match. If two siblings are fighting, you don't lock em in a room and egg them on. You sit them down, tell them to apologize, and make them share the toys.

These labels might have a use in the field of sociology, but in the real world they only act as a wedge and an excuse to be mad at someone else. I'm not saying that they don't exist because they very much do, only that need to stop existing if we ever want to learn to work together as a species.