03-26-2020, 07:50 PM
Kaczynski did start as an extreme leftist and went to the Right, a pattern of many nasty people (Mussolini, Goebbels, D C Stephenson, Doriot, Laval, Quisling, Pavolini). Such people seem, aside from Laval, to have gone from the extreme Left to the extreme Right without going through the moderate center that eschews violence except in self-defense.
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.