I always get the left & right stuff mixed up. I think it's partly because they both play in the sand box and a little of each stick to each other and here in Canada the terms are many times opposite to what is used in the US. The media we listen to flows between the two countries being so close. What happens in the US effects us more than what happens in Canada effects them. Demografics, Population, Land Mass, Trade is the big one. US is Canada's largest trading "partner" I think. I am no expert on this, however that is the ghist of it. So I am going to just play a bit in the sandbox and dump some lumps and links here and revist from time to time. ~ Tim
http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-left-and-right-politics
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gist
I think of cats playing in the sandbox, just my experience from being on the farm. Looks like the writer of this link below had experience with proper dogs
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sandbox