What do the words Left and Right mean?

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It was a few years ago that I finally learned the history of left and right. My understanding now is that it goes back to the French Revolution. At the time their leadership was divided between those that favored the monarchy (rich or 1%) and those that favored the workers (poor or 99%). The issues of the day became so divisive that the politicians clustered on separate sides of the aisle in their parliament. The pro-monarchy people sat on the right side and the pro-workers sat on the left side. Hence we still use the phrases right side and left side of the aisle. I think even in the U.S. the Republicans sit on the right and the Democrats sit on the left when facing the bench.

A thought that has been rolling around my head with regard to Ayn Rand and the rise of out-of-control capitalism is the question of how we got here. Recall that the racket started on the right with Ronald Reagan and deregulation and lower taxes. They quickly caught on and derided it as voodoo economics. After that the left started up with Al Gore and his NAFTA push, which was the first step in the globalism/New World Order craze. The old right still tried to hang on to sanity through Ross Perot but didn't have enough numbers. Bill Clinton ended up winning that election and deregulated the banks which let the animals loose. After that the push moved back to the right and scared voters into joining them for fear of angry teenagers aka terrorists. Of course by that time the old right had been replaced with the new right, aka neocons.

There's a big game afoot and it's coming out of NYC.

I just got back from a business trip. On the way I met an Italian national. He said that Italians are just as frustrated as we are. All of their high-brand goods such as Gucci, etc, are also being made in China and their workers have also been displaced. I saw the same thing in Germany.

Whoever is behind this globalism project needs to make it work. My hunch, of course, is that it's not supposed to work at all. Instead it is designed to cause strife. When that happens the people that caused the strife will step up with an ultimate solution that they have prepared.

Left and Right. What's old is new again. Maybe we need to go full circle and urge someone to re-explain the Enlightenment.