No, because we’ve never had to live through the horror of Stalin’s Russia or Castro’s Cuba or Mao’s Cultural Revolution. So large numbers of us think it’s a peachy-keen touchy-feelie idea.
I think there is some truth in your post.
That is why the opinion of those who have lived under REAL repressive societies carries weight with me. A few years back, I spoke with a man who had immigrated from the Soviet Union and became an American citizen, and he was nearly frantic with anxiety and anger over the things he was seeing in our government.
He recognized all the ploys, the propaganda, the code words, the promises as the road to tyranny, because he had seen them all and lived through them all before.
Many of us see it, but we know there is a portion of the american electorate out there that doesn’t see it at all.
Hearing the vehemence in his voice greatly disturbed me.