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I wish the whole left-right paradigm would fade away. Personally I feel it's a bit of an artificial dichotomy.

I'm all for governance by good sense with an eye toward improving society in general.

The political left-right paradigm is an abstraction around the deeper tension between shame and fear. As long as someone wants you to be afraid of something, right-wing politics will exist. As long as someone wants you to feel ashamed of something, left-wing politics will exist.

Complete rejection of both fear and shame and anyone who wants you to feel them is the only way to escape the left-wing/right-wing dichotomy.

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