Every leftist, from the president down to the hemp-stinkinest 4th year junior college “liberal”,
thinks that HE will be holding the whip instead of
slaving under its lash.
To rephrase your tagline, the difference between a progressive and a Stalinist is that the latter has the power to do what he wants, while the former just wishes he did.
In David Horowitz’s “Radical Son,” the book that just added a new paradigm to my worldview, Mr. Horowitz mentioned the percentage of the first generation of Bolsheviks who were dead of non-natural causes with 20 years ... it was in the 80-90% range. They turn on each other *immediately*, and the wimpy homos, like most of the media, are the first to drop, because they’re so totally expendable.
Katie Couric, Mika Brezhinski, Soledad O’Brien, et al, don’t want to think about it, but they’ll get the same treatment as Channon Christian if their “oppressed minority” really cuts loose. Mr. Horowitz gave several examples.