Came across this on my Twitter feed. Professor openly admitting to brainwashing students.
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You're almost seeing past the false dichotomy there. Like you pointed out, there's multiple competing standards for what left and right mean and even a two axis compass oversimplifies things. It's too bad triangular charts never caught on.
In any case, there's an observable consistent behavior in the destructive forces that self-identify under labels like progressive, liberal, globalist, marxist, etc where they use utopian lies to tear down old social structures and replace them in ways that increase their own power and fortunes, so I tend to use tradition vs "progress" when speaking on a one dimensional spectrum.
Also, you seem to be under the standard modern western misconception that monarchism means 18th century "l'état c'est moi" style absolutism, when most historical kingdoms and empires were far more decentralized than a typical modern state, with institutions like the church and the aristocracy providing checks and balances against the head of state and against each other.
It's not a false dichotomy. It's the only accurate scale to measure political ideology on. Monarchies by nature concentrate power in a central figure. A corrupt king damns a nation, and hereditary rule is retarded. Monarchy is authoritarian centralized government, which is leftist. The world is complex, so yes competing power has existed in monarchies, but acknowledging complex reality isn't justification for claiming that monarchism as an ideology isn't left wing. Some have been more or less leftist, but the ideological structure of that type of government is leftist.
The pattern you are calling tradition vs progress you are identifying by relative cultural measures. It's not accurate. Plenty of "traditionalist" groups have wreaked hell upon nations in the past - it is more accurate to identify them by their leftist power structures. It would also be more accurate to identify who typically manipulates leftist power structures - sociopaths. There are other psychological types that are attracted to leftism and they are poisonous to functioning societies. It is the leftism that is the problem because it is simpler to deny them the structure to gain supreme power than it is to try to root out and destroy the sociopaths.
A number of traditional cultural features survived as long as they did because they also worked against degenerates and sociopaths, which was beneficial to society. There is wisdom in many traditions, but labeling politics on relative cultural aspects isn't an objective measure. "Tradition" is far too broad and varied. There are leftist traditions as well as right wing traditions. The catholic church is "traditionalist" in some places, but objectively it is a globalist, extranational power structure. It is leftist by nature.