Leftism, rightism; it is a poor prognosis of political identity. It was created during the Jacobin and Freemasonic Grand Orient lodges (revolutionaries) of France orchestrated French Revolution.

What I get angered by is people conflate leftism, however one wants to define it with liberalism, specifically classical liberalism, or rightism with thr principles of conservatism.

It's become quite clear in the U.S. that the democrats are not liberals in the meaning of true classical liberalism. They are neoliberals, not really liberals at all. They are authoritarians, statists working for thr tevolving door of crony corporatism and its amalgamation with government.

The GOP republicans, the ones who obtain positions in the upper hierarchy of private contracting, either military/defense/security, they too work within a revolving door of corportosm and seek to benefit from it at the behest of the lawless bankers.

When they say they want less government interference. They are not talking about you or the middle class, they are talking about themselves and the private corporatists including wall street speculators.

Basically, they are all authoritarians and statists. And only rarely follow the true principles of classical liberalism and conservatism.

Trump, formerly a democrat has been one of the most anti-gun, anti-free speech presidents to ever take office. He is an authoritarian and statist.

Right, left. Who gives a crap.