I dunno, call me simple minded. There’s the realm of ideas and there’s the realm of “I’ve got a bridge for sale in Brooklyn”. Stalin was a czar like the czar b

I dunno, call me simple minded. There’s the realm of ideas and there’s the realm of “I’ve got a bridge for sale in Brooklyn”. Stalin was a czar like the czar before him who deposed the czar before him. “Oh but I’m a {king | leader | servant } of THE PEOPLE” Of course you are, comrade! Er, your highness… All of politics can be reduced to whether we will still be stuck worshiping kings or whether we will organize ourselves. Monarchism is certainly rather authoritarian, isn’t it. Giving people and parties absolute power is a bad idea whatever your notion of right left etc. Of course, as someone who collapses the four pole axes to two: utopian and dickish, I blame the right wing spirit in humanity for all that socially ails us. The right will never have creative answers to emerging problems as their fundament lies in denial of reality and the insistence of sticking with bad dumb cultural ideas, which is what the majority of culture is: collections of bad ideas and lousy systems imposed upon new humans. “Here ya go kid, welcome to debt and climate change, thanks for the subsidies, future”