“ Yet anti-communist ideological antibodies didn’t die with the disease; instead, they became an autoimmune disorder attacking society itself.”
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Well, as it turns out, the disease traveled from the Soviet Union to the West (by design), and we needed those antibodies in the ‘90s and 2000s more than ever. But they were suppressed and, the disease that was largely wiped out long Russia started thriving right here. Now we have ma y members of one of our major parties spouted positions, and implementing policies that are indistinguishable from Russian Communism.
The Left swapped “oppressed proletariat”, which didn’t work in the West due to the success of Free Markets and Property Rights (slammed as “Capitalism” by the Left), for “oppressed identity groups”, but with the same Leftist totalitarianism underlying it all.