elements of America’s own political culture, which remind me of the totalitarian tendencies I know so well from my early life. The attacks and accusations are never totally monolithic, but they do tend to come from one political camp in particular: Americans who consider themselves Marxist, Leninist, Maoist, Communist, Socialist, Democratic Socialist, or more broadly, of “the Left.”
The proportion of people on the left who identify with any of these titles compared to regular everyday people who just believe in civil rights and social liberalism is just- you live in Chicago, you know it's vanishingly small. Such a ridiculous game to play. And the interest in any of these philosophies is *in context*, looking for ways to modify the things *the vast majority of Americans* acknowledge are not working about capitalism. This is a baby/bathwater scenario you're trying to trump up into the BURN IT ALL DOWN thing you mentioned earlier.
