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The Left–Right Divide Is a LIE

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Raymond Ibrahim
Apr 22, 2026
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“The Left!!!”

“The Right!!!”

These words are daily shouted everywhere, as if their meaning were self-evident.

Yet few ever stop to ask: What do they actually mean?

It might be argued that most people imagine a straight line where the center is “neutral,” the left is “liberal,” and the right is “conservative.”

This model is not merely simplistic — it is deliberately misleading. It conceals what is truly at stake: not politics, but the very notion of truth itself.


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