I agree.Both the right and left go toward tyranny.We dont have to go there.
Wrong, and this isn't what Bristoe said. He said the left of the Republican Party (whether we're talking Rockefeller Republicans or Neocons) are as bad as the Democrat left. Left refers to a desire to see more and more matters being handled at the national level rather than by either local government or the private sector. Right means you oppose the centralization of government power, and favor allowing local government or the private sector to manage most matters.
This conceptualization of left and right goes back to the post French Revolutionary period, and remained unchanged till WWII. University intellectuals saw that the events of WWII, and those leading up to it, were causing a general condemnation of leftism throughout the world, and they sought to head that off by reconceptualizing left and right to this notion of both extremes leading to centralized, authoritarian, tyranny, which is nonsensical on its face.
