You're likely correct about us being on the different ends of it if you take left /right as defined by the self-styled opinion formers as gospel. I don't. Like most people I hold a variety of views about all sorts of things which are contradictory if looked at through the pure lens of ideology.
They are, I admit, mainly conservative culturally, but that doesn't mean that I'm on the side of Wall St multis & their corrupt stranglehold on the American body politic either.
I can't pretend to understand the nuances of American racial politics, so I don't go there. Sometimes though something comes through which just jars badly.
This reaction to Mr Cain's death is one such, & he's a man I'd never heard of until now.
Dr. Goebbels left a legacy of how to do propaganda which lives on......put that observation on your spectrum & maybe we aren't so far apart as you might want to believe.