Nice observations, though you have "Left" and "Right" intermingled as all being "Left" to you. This is the age of exaggeration, half truths, disinformation, and outright lies. Up is down, black is white, investigating what would have seemed like criminal activity in a prior age, is partisan political activity today, and our President is an orange psychopath, so why not intermingle Left and Right, I say. (We need a " sort'a like" button.)
Speaking of Spuds, about 25 years ago I bought a framed picture of him that I still have hanging in my home office to this day: Same print, different frame. Reminds me of catching a good wave.