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Really? I am simply pointing out that there is a dynamic of reciprocity inbuilt into God's creation, with examples being male and female, for example, and left and right in the body.
The divide within the political world, exacerbated by the Left vs Right paradigm, reflects this on a political level. There are myriad examples all throughout the created world of such reciprocity, and it finds expression also in the world of human endeavors. However, in the case of we humans, the expressions are very often, if not always, distorted and 'corrupted', because of the fact that we ourselves are fallen people with an innate corruption inherited from the Fall.
If we were an unfallen people, and the Cabal (or the evil behind it) was not a factor that influences how we find out expression politically, how would things function? A dictatorship? I doubt it. There would always be aspects within the political approach that fall either to a 'left' - approach or a 'right' approach, or a neutrality between them. Left being, for example, an approach that favors change and fluidity, and right being an approach that favors conservativism, and continuity.
What we have today, and have had since the Cabal's influence, since the days of the French Revolution, is a bastardization of what politics centered on God should be.
In my view, the "left" and the "right" should be cooperating centering on the common purpose of serving the People of the country. Instead, evil infiltrates to have them fight as opponents, thus dividing the people into one camp or the other.
Healthy competition of ideas between the 'left' and the 'right' would be productive for the country, if they shared the common purpose of honestly serving the nation with integrity (aka God's purpose for them).
Instead what we have is a hidden purpose behind them both, an evil purpose and one that is advanced by dividing the people.
In my experience, the greatest clarity on any dynamic or interaction comes from recognizing what are original structures and principles put in place by the Creator, and fallen structures or dynamics that deviate from that original model. The creation provides the ultimate blueprint for understanding God's principles (with Christ being the very embodiment and manifestation of those principles 'the word', made flesh).
Anyway, that's how I see it.
I am not arguing about the divine left and right - Yin and Yang. Fully aware of this. My point is aboput political left and right, which is an artificial construct.
They abuse the natural Yin/Yang tendancies of people to push them int political left vs right, but it only serves to further divide people.
Simply put, just because someone is "right wing" does not mean they are good and that someone is "left wing" does not mean they are evil.
Well, yeah. I was agreeing with your basic point, and adding a wider context.
Although, I don't know that I fully agree that "left and right" in politics is purely an artificial construct. Rather, I see it as a corruption of those natural Yin/Yang tendencies you mention.
AFAIK, the origin of the terminology traces back to the French Revolution, but even prior to that, the concept of more conservative politicians and more liberal or radical politicians existed. Eg. in the British Parliament in the 1700's you had the whigs and the tories.
I think you underscore this point by your last comment: "Simply put, just because someone is "right wing" does not mean they are good and that someone is "left wing" does not mean they are evil".
100%. If you consider how the Left vs Right paradigm is exploited and infiltrated by evil, the original nature of the paradigm becomes clearer.
When the left - aka more liberal (in the original sense of the word) tendencies are corrupted, they devolve into Radical Leftism, the epitome of which (the perfection of which) is seen in Marxism, and now, neo-Marxism (James Lindsay gives an excellent breakdown of how the various 'Species' of Marxism can be understood as being different iterations of the Genus "Marxism in his address in the EU Parliament).
What about the right - aka the more conservative political tendencies? They devolve into Oligarchy, into Corporatism, etc.
Both of these forms, the Liberals in the USA today, and the RINOs in the USA today, are manifestations of leftism and rightism fully corrupted and co-opted.
If we begin to recognize that in its uncorrupted forms, the Left aka JFKs democrats, etc, have important points to make and highlight important aspects of national governance, and that the Right, aka Lincoln's republicans also have important points and also highlight important aspects of national governance, we find ways to overcome the divide that the Cabal is artificially creating and exploiting.
Case in point, the American Civil war. I think it would be incorrect to see the South as purely evil and the North as purely the good guys. Rather, the distinction is relative.
If instead of the Cabal machine as the central driving force behind the political dynamics, you had God, and good, as represented by the ideals of nationhood as espoused by the Founding Fathers, as the central driving force, then both the political tendencies to one side or the other would be kept in balance, and complement each other instead of contradicting each other.
In this context, I certain see Trump not as a 'conservative'. He's actually a full-blown radical. But he's a radical aligned to the purpose of the nation, the well-being of the nation.
Perhaps once the Cabal is more fully exposed and disabled, political parties will go out of style (I think they should). And thus, any rigid concept of 'The Left' and 'the Right' may well disappear. Or, the concept of political expression may evolve, to the place where a paradigm of mutual cooperation between "yin/yang" aka left and right tendencies will prevail.