Dictators, right or left, are all of a single kind: They are simply thieves. With power.
To support a dictator, as leftists are fond of doing, one identifies with a thief.
So, to follow the money in the case of dictator-supporting “socialists” like the bloated one or the Hungarian nazi, is to discover theft somewhere in the woodpile, and certainly financial mendacity on a large scale.
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Their connections are valuable. And they become more valuable when government expands.
The attraction of a planned economy to such people is that they imagine that they will be among the planners.
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