Agree or disagree?

[soldierant]

48. We are still fighting the battle

with leftist government being authoritarian and scaring people. Even if the governmanr is not actually leftist at all. Russia admitted when the Soviet Union broke up that its government was no longer Communist, but many people, including many Democrats, appear to still believe it is. It might help if we could all stop referring to "Comrade Putin."

But I don't know how we can expect people to know any better without learning about The Political Compass.(thepoliticalcompass dot org.) In the eighties there was a short period when we started to get close to getting it when we started talking about "fiscally" and "socially" liberal or conservative positions. that at least got the point across that there were differences between economic positions and autocracy as opposed to democracy. But even that has been gone for a long time.