02-10-2019, 02:47 AM
(02-10-2019, 02:17 AM)taramarie Wrote: Oh and fun fact, I am going to Slovakia in a couple of months time and by the sounds of it i will be a right winger over there as their left wing apparently was not too long ago a party of communists. So yuck...don't want that. Life sure is interesting, isn't it!
"Left" and "Right" are relative in some countries. Where the recent Right legacy is fascist (let us say Chile) I would be on the Left. Where the recent Left legacy is Communist or at least Marxist (let us say Venezuela) I would be on the Right. I would be in political limbo in Brazil, would I not? Brazil has a President who seems to admire Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.