“Common practice in the old USSR. You must be nuts if you object to the Worker’s Paradise.”
Precisely. That’s a common fixture of progressive regimes the world over, and throughout history. Dissent is criminalized, and when the elites realize that approach has diminishing returns, they paint opposition as a mental illness.
It does not take a significant leap of rationale for a leftist to justify frog-marching the opposition off to the asylums and the reeducation camps. We already have progressives here in the west trying to reclassify skepticism of the messianic government into a mental illness, it doesn’t take much more than that for the leftists to start building camps.
Controlling CO2 emissions can also be seen as a green justification for death camps and mass murder.
they paint opposition as a mental illness.
It is starting to get that way here; Gore Bull Warming, disagreeing with the homosexual agenda, or the union agenda if you are in WI....