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You are wrong on so many levels.
Let's go to the most basic one - 'left' and 'right' are ideological opposites of the one question:
Who should have more power?
Individuals (control everything through capital) or government (redistributing capital amongst the people, so no one is left behind).
That is not just some silly division, that is the real distinction between how people think the government should work, and those are not compatible at all.
The US has very luke-warm 'leftists' compared to other countries - even Bernie Sanders, the most known 'radical leftist' is considered borderline right just because the country is so far right as of now.
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.
So you are left leaning, and that's great, but there is a giant push from the very wealthy to take our power away from us.
That's all that it is.
If you think I'm either left or right leaning from all this then you've completely missed the point
So we are both wasting our time here, have a good one!