Is it really dead?

I've been asked two questions about the death of the Left.

First, what will we be hearing from the dying Left in the future?  The answer: it will be more of the same indistinguishable whining.  The Left hates big business so every event, inconvenience and misstep will be seen in the Lefty world as a source of whining about big business. Rich people and big business are the villains so they will be bugaboos for a long time.  There is no way to disabuse anyone of those hoary themes. Real death is the only end to the whining.

Second, what will happen to the Left-Right dichotomy?  It never was a genuine dichotomy.  While the Left was a coherent ideological rant, (getting daily talking points from Doonesbury)the right is a meaningless conglomeration.  Simple proof: the main anti-gay voting cohort is Black and Latino, not Republicans.  Are they 'Right'.  No.  The strongest supporters of urban police are Asian-Americans, not Republicans.  Are they 'right'. No.  Are Republicans disproportionately religious?  No, Democratic Catholics and Mexican evangelicals are the most religious.

The dichotomy in America before Left-Right was slavery/anti-slavery. Before that it was religion/anti-religion.

I can already see that the post Left-Right alignment will be pro commerce/anti commerce.  The anti-commerce movement has a large Luddite component.