Conservative liberals can be less susceptible than progressive liberals to being duped about this kind of thing because they’re well into their nationalism and remember which side their country ostensibly fought on during WWII; i.e. against the Nazis. So they can see open support for Nazis as betrayal of ‘what we fought for’ (even though we weren’t born). Maybe it depends on the country.
Progressive libs, on the other hand, like to get sucked in to giving the appearance of being ‘on the good side’. Do they blow in the wind.
Sometimes, if you can find a way to suspend conservatives’ bigotry for long enough to talk about history and economics, they can skip the progressive liberalism all together and go straight to communist. Not all of them, of course.
I suppose my point is that we can’t rely on a spectrum where progressives are closer to communists than conservatives. They’re all a big fluid blob of reactionary.
Conservative liberals can be less susceptible than progressive liberals to being duped about this kind of thing because they’re well into their nationalism and remember which side their country ostensibly fought on during WWII; i.e. against the Nazis. So they can see open support for Nazis as betrayal of ‘what we fought for’ (even though we weren’t born). Maybe it depends on the country.
Progressive libs, on the other hand, like to get sucked in to giving the appearance of being ‘on the good side’. Do they blow in the wind.
Sometimes, if you can find a way to suspend conservatives’ bigotry for long enough to talk about history and economics, they can skip the progressive liberalism all together and go straight to communist. Not all of them, of course.
I suppose my point is that we can’t rely on a spectrum where progressives are closer to communists than conservatives. They’re all a big fluid blob of reactionary.