Liberals think political movements manifest whatever reality they imagine is the end goal, rather than depending on the circumstances of the time and situation of what generated the political movement. They think enough people clamoring for communism would quite literally conjure a cartoonishly evil dictator who would institute the American conception of what the 1920s USSR was.
It's purely magical thinking, also liberals view politics as completely external. It's sports or a TV show. They think of politics as praying to various polytheistic gods who manifest their powers based on how many followers they have. Liberals have concluded the communist god is transphobic and would have goals unrelated to its followers' desires.
Part of this might be that there's been a lack of a coherent leftist movement in the west for the past 60 years, so liberals can describe communists by way of cartoonish propaganda.
Liberals think political movements manifest whatever reality they imagine is the end goal, rather than depending on the circumstances of the time and situation of what generated the political movement. They think enough people clamoring for communism would quite literally conjure a cartoonishly evil dictator who would institute the American conception of what the 1920s USSR was.
It's purely magical thinking, also liberals view politics as completely external. It's sports or a TV show. They think of politics as praying to various polytheistic gods who manifest their powers based on how many followers they have. Liberals have concluded the communist god is transphobic and would have goals unrelated to its followers' desires.
Part of this might be that there's been a lack of a coherent leftist movement in the west for the past 60 years, so liberals can describe communists by way of cartoonish propaganda.