[rustbucket]

Perhaps we could agree to call the American 'right' the 'up' side of politics, and the American 'left' the 'down' side of politics. Then the whole European right-left argument could go on until the end of time, and nobody here would give a flip.

[risk]

I'm not ready to let go of the notion that politics is a sort of spectrum that wraps. As one goes to the extremes, the same kinds of problems arise. The extremes trade in human misery, but the roads they travel to get there are in opposite directions.