re: #174 oaktree

Basically that a society can reach that level of dysfunction via going “right” or “left”? And once they reach there there are a great deal of similarities under the wording that is pasted on the facade?

yes, if i understand you correctly. imho, totalitarian regimes of all stripes have more in common with each other than with the more sane ideology they abandoned a long, long time ago. the story of Hitler no more undermines my positions than the story of Stalin undermines a Democrat’s positions.