Left and Right in American Politics?

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Why do we insist on classifying between the left and right? Surely most people are in the centre with fringes heading left or right. Why not create a new centre party, drawing on both current partiesy? And also, it's confusing that let left and right, that mapping, doesn't really fully capture what's been going on in our society of late.

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