Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
I have been obsessing lately about two topics: Ukraine and the 2022 midterms. In a way, they are related topics, both wars of democracy against autocracy. I know Ukraine is an emerging democracy, but I think its progress has been genuine.

80 years ago we were in an existential fight to preserve the liberal democratic order - the free world - from 3, related, forms of totalitarianism. After the war, the fight continued against a fourth. The struggle hasn't really changed in the intervening years, although the forms have evolved.

I think I'm going to start a couple of related threads: one comparing Ukraine's existential fight and our own; the other discussing the forms of totalitarian autocracy and how silly it is to distinguish between communist and fascist forms.

Hear hear! We need to take some lessons from the Ukrainians because they're showing us what growing a pair is like. Communism and fascism may spring from different sources and have differing aims and means of control but in the end, once you get to a certain level of extreme, they both begin to suffocate people with the same efficiency.

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