Dawn of new political eras in US and France?

WE have employed the labels "left" and "right" so frequently during our contemporary political discourse that some of us assume that those terms may have a timeless quality and that they reflect the clash between two coherent explanations about how society should work. God created the world, then made man and woman, followed by the fashioning of the political right and the political left.

For the record: The labels "left" and "right" were first used during the French Revolution (1789-1799) when memb…