That's not how I see it at all, but maybe that's just because you're using heavily loaded language. Also, one situation was decidedly real, the other much less

That's not how I see it at all, but maybe that's just because you're using heavily loaded language. Also, one situation was decidedly real, the other much less tangible. Ironically, the "authoritarianism" as you put it, is temporary for the real situation and seemingly permanent for the imagined. I'm totally aware how my position may look hypocritical, I'm trying to explain how it looks from the inside.