Dear Resistance, listen to my lived totalitarian experience - you have no effing idea what you're talking about -

Dear Resistance, listen to my lived totalitarian experience - you have no effing idea what you're talking about -
"...Your identity is your argument; “You wouldn’t know what it’s like; you can’t tell me what I should think or feel”. 

...As a straight, white, Christian, right-wing, middle class male of European extraction I get told to shut up a lot. 

As you can imagine, this does not at all stop me from speaking out. 

The white privilege clearly makes me both uncontrollable and insufferable.

But if lived experience is indeed the be-all-end-all that the identarian left considers it to be, there is one area where my lived experience without a doubt shit all over the lived experience of the woke folk. 

Unlike all those among them who have been born and/or raised in the West and have zero or almost zero experience of living under anything other than a liberal democratic government (which is 99 per cent of them at least), I have lived the first 15 years of my life under the Soviet block-style communism, or “real socialism” as the Party used to call it. 

...I do know a difference or twenty-two between a totalitarian or authoritarian society and a Western democracy.

• ...To those who think that America is currently in a grip of fascism and are calling on the military to stage a coup to remove the President (that’s you Rosie O’Donnell, Sarah Silverman, Congressman Steve Cohen and others),
• To the celebrities and commentators, from Michael Moore to former security officials like John Brennan, who think the United States is on the brink of dictatorship,
• To all those who have compared Trump to Hitler,
• (And a special mention of those who really should know better – professional historians of the German and the Russian totalitarianism, like Timothy “Bloodlands” Snyder and Charles “Ordinary Men” Browning, who have been only too happy to – without quite comparing Trump to Hitler – talk about illiberal democracy, authoritarian leadership, and draw parallels between the 1930s Europe and the 2010s America),

you really have no idea, and I mean it with the greatest possible respect. 
Actually, I don’t.

...P.P.S. (24 October 2018) The hottest take, from yesterday, from a former Reagan official who has since drifted left – Hitler was more honourable than Trump:

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