I smell a big fat KGB rat in all this.

[lonely bird]

57. Oh, I get it

Authoritarianism is, imo, complementary to conservatism. It is static in nature meaning that while some internal shifting of policies/belief structures occurs the basic foundation is control and maintaining power. Money often ends up as a means of keeping score.

This also goes to the whole communism bleating by the RW. There has never been a communist state in history. The end game of communism is, iirc, the withering away of the state. Every so-called communist state is simply an authoritarian state. Imo, the left/right labels don’t even fit in the case of authoritarian states. They may start spouting leftist or rightist agitprop but the end result is the same.