One of the great public relations coups of all time has been to identify “the left” with goodness and “the right” with “wrong.”
This is especially droll, since, in olden times, “the left” was identified with “sinister.”
Further, and especially before the introduction of toilet paper, the left hand was not a hand you offered in public, especially in handshake or salute. Why? Because in private it was the hand one used to wipe one’s anus after defecation. The idea that “the left,” today, would be synonymous with good intentions and moral goodness and all other things pure and holy is almost hilarious.
But it is just the kind of thing you should expect to happen when the State comes to dominate society.
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