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It's sad but inevitable that trendy-progressive pseudo-liberals become just as repressive and authoritarian as right-wing neofascists. It's always been that way, of course. Insecure people looking for simple answers are always drawn to simple-minded propositions that they then attempt to enforce on everyone in order to compensate for personal emotional deficiencies. It is also always true that while the right focuses on crushing its opponents, the left focuses mostly on crushing other left-wingers whose position differs marginally from their own. Which is why, at most times in history, far-right groups conquer while far-left groups bicker and squabble among themselves, proceeding to ever-more-absurd postures and beliefs.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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