The Left vs Right paradigm was created in post war Britain by the Fabian Socialists in the Labour Party as a means of painting the Tories as "Nazi Light" (In America liberals and Democrats use the same terminology to paint Republicans in the same Nazi light). Its also because the only range of "acceptable" political systems in the Progressive mind are Communists on one end and Fascists (which are a form of Socialists) on the other end.
The terms "Left" and "Right" come from the house of commons ... the Labour Party sat on the left side of the room and the Conservative party on the right.




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