Yes all liberals are leftists and vice versa, my point is that any dissenting opinion from the mainline is automatically deemed a leftist point of view.

This is why , In my opinion, the GOP needs the Democrats around in order to survive as a party.
The worst thing possible that could happen to the GOP is if all Democrats suddenly disappeared.

To parallel with an abstract:

In the former Soviet Union, the dissenting party was removed after the Bolsheviks took power.
Without a competing party, the Bolsheviks looked inward and the great purge began.
Just a few years after what was thought to be a populist "peoples" revolution. Without an internal dissenting opinions the Soviet Union quickly became a totalitarian regime.



Conversely:
Should the Republicans suddenly vanish, the Democrat party would degenerate to in-fighting and purging and a totalitarian regime would emerge.


In my opinion, a nation must have alternate points of view on how the country should be ran in order for politics to be somewhat balanced and semi-rational.


Plus - if there was not a Right vs Left, this would not be any fun!

They are called political "parties" for a reason...

Yes all liberals are leftists and vice versa, my point is that any dissenting opinion from the mainline is automatically deemed a leftist point of view.

This is why , In my opinion, the GOP needs the Democrats around in order to survive as a party.
The worst thing possible that could happen to the GOP is if all Democrats suddenly disappeared.

To parallel with an abstract:

In the former Soviet Union, the dissenting party was removed after the Bolsheviks took power.
Without a competing party, the Bolsheviks looked inward and the great purge began.
Just a few years after what was thought to be a populist "peoples" revolution. Without an internal dissenting opinions the Soviet Union quickly became a totalitarian regime.



Conversely:
Should the Republicans suddenly vanish, the Democrat party would degenerate to in-fighting and purging and a totalitarian regime would emerge.


In my opinion, a nation must have alternate points of view on how the country should be ran in order for politics to be somewhat balanced and semi-rational.


Plus - if there was not a Right vs Left, this would not be any fun!

They are called political "parties" for a reason...