Funny how leftist politics is getting impatiently authoritarian, PG tweeted this just today: https://x.com/paulg/status/1690952107250302976
Also in other news, Germany wants to ban “far-right” political party. If that doesn’t sound authoritarian, I’m not sure what would.
Apparently that party is becoming pretty popular, too, and polling better than their current prime minister's party (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-ge..., https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/).
I agree, it's not a good look. Talk like that makes Western democracy look like a sham, though a more subtle sham than Soviet democracy. You can vote for any party you want as long as it's 1) approved by the political elites or 2) has no chance of holding power.
It would be a lot less toxic to democracy if those elites just compromised with the democratic reality and moderated their unpopular policies and address the issues they're leaving unresolved.
(Not all leftists. But the existence of impatiently authoritarian leftists should not be a surprise by now.)
Yes, all very moderate views in 2023