<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">That definition would fail for the original usage — given that the Left then was against the governing king. It also doesn’t fit examples of Left anti-authoritarians and of Leftists who work for community empowerment. <div><br></div><div>The Right tends to worship hierarchy, tradition, and obedience.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, many people are non-ideological or mixed. Often what is seen in the US and Europe is self-identifies Leftists adopting Right methods — compulsion, hierarchy, and unreason.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 4, 2020, at 6:58 PM, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I read a good definition for "left" and "right" that I think holds for both the historical and modern cases.<div><br></div><div>The "left" trusts the government more than their neighbors, especially their "right" neighbors.</div><div><br></div><div>The "right" trusts their neighbors, even their "left" neighbors, more than the government.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>