Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
You’re flat out wrong. Entirely wrong, you have it backwards.
The political right is characterized by willingness to let almost anything slide if it favors a handful of typical priorities. They’re effective because they can swallow all kinds of disagreement in service of those goals. Just look at the history of Trump, it’s an unbelievable tale of huge supposedly principled groups of people doing exactly that, sacrificing their principles to fall in line with (lip-service to) their few cherished ideals.
The political left is basically opposite from that, and you find more and more disagreement among leftists, within themselves, the further left you look.
All humans are susceptible to propaganda and the basics of group psychology, no disagreement about that. But leftists as a rule tend to have specific and uncompromising goals that makes them harder to co-opt, while making them easier to simply split along those lines.
I don’t think you understand leftist thinking or movements very well, from what ya said.