05-11-2022, 01:46 PM
(05-10-2022, 08:20 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Don’t kid yourself wasn’t directed at you. I didn’t make that clear. It’s for the others that will come along. . But if you look at some of the authoritarians the left has admired over the last 60 years, it’s not a reach.
I can see that now. It's quite possiible that I just used your words as a bridge for leaving a bunch of words on my own here that might not have been all that personal. You know how life is. Like that, at times.
About it being a reach, yeah Dill would probably say that saying the left is too broad a generalization. The Che admirers or communism symphathizers sure existed, but never really were mainstream. That being said, I again just use you to get something across from my own country, which I usually avoid. We have a government formed of conservatives (in US terms, democrats) and a small left-wing party, and boy oh boy the latter display quite some (at times laughably unattached) authoritarian vibes. I most certainly do not call it a reach even in non-historical terms.
- It's still worth and maybe necessary to point out that these are rather small grains of sand. The real desert, if you allow me the same generalization, is on the right. At least today.
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