> lording your supposed superiority over opponents is not a good way to conduct a discussion. It wasn't really an invitation to discussion. > the split betwee

> lording your supposed superiority over opponents is not a good way to conduct a discussion. It wasn't really an invitation to discussion. > the split between "right wing" and "left wing" is so general as to lose all salience No, the left–right split is just fine for talking about U.S. politics. It becomes more problematic when you begin to include other countries whose political divisions split along different issues. But it becomes almost totally useless if you try to shoehorn "most of political theory" into two categories based on only two criteria (social, fiscal) that, gosh, just happen to match up with the two present day U.S. political parties.