EricC wrote:
In the late 1800s and early 1900s in the U.S. the liberals and the//progressives mostly had the same agenda, and that somehow got everything confused, and the terms locked into place in a really weird way. If anything, this time around, the Trump administration is solidly "progressive autocratic", but our zeitgeist can't really handle that designation.
And I think Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin (or their political/governance machines) all fit that trope? War machine, Industrial machine, and Agricultural machine each jammed into existence through authoritarian coordination?
(one of) My current fascinations is in zoids and whether humans are nominally such in our in(ter)dependency with one another, infrastructure, religious, political, professional, cultural affiliations...
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