late wrote:The violent repression of the Left made them easy targets for Russian propaganda. When the truth about Russia got out, the Left turned on Russia.
The Right is in bed with Russia. Look at McConnell cutting a deal to get a Russian funded aluminium plant in his state. Or the NRA literally getting in bed with Russians. Or Right wing propagandists like Bannon working with Russian propagandists to come up with better propaganda.
The Left had a romance, which they broke off. The Right has a marriage, and has no interest whatsoever to contemplate divorce.
This is because left-wingers, by and large, become left-wing for idealistic, non-selfish reasons, whereas right-wingers usually become right-wing for selfish reasons - either fear of losing their hereditary privileges, or feelings of hatred and contempt towards members of out-groups. When they realised that the Soviet reality contradicted their moral ideals, the Western left-wingers turned hostile towards it. The Western right-wingers, by and large, have no such scruples. Putin’s Russia actually
is living up to their ‘ideals’. Lol.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)