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Party in power tries to do anything it can to hold power. This is not an interesting or prophetic statement, it's simply how human beings have worked and have

• tryonenow 6y ago
  Except the point is that some parties are more oppressive in power than others, and as it happens the party that is ostensibly against oppressiveness becomes far more oppressive - which we're already seeing online with people using justification like "the paradox of tolerance" to silence others, which is a decidedly leftist/progressive refrain. Ted was prescient. One of the most interesting aspects of the manifesto, IMO, is how little the progressive mindset has changed so many decades after it was written. Moreover, if one accepts that human ability has some distribution with variance, then it follows that the only way to enforce total equity, which is in fundamental contradiction with human nature in a scarce universe, is by extreme authoritarianism and oppression. But idealists don't see that part of the picture until it's far too late - which is the pattern of color revolutions across time and space.