I agree. It's really not hard to see how these people are the offshoots of a philosphy that killed 100 million people. It wouldn't suprise me to see forced disappareances and other Stalinist era practices happening here one day if this is not stopped.
“It wouldn’t suprise me to see forced disappareances and other Stalinist era practices happening here one day if this is not stopped.”
I believe this has already begun, in the form of criminalizing political opposition - such as the politicized prosecution of Tom Delay, or the cherry picked prosecution of Dinesh D’Souza. And the Clintons didn’t possess 200 FBI files for the fun of it.
And now we are seeing criminalizing the most mildest of non-conformity - aka the potential fine in NYC for using the wrong pronoun, or a security guard getting charged with assault for puling a guy out of a women’s restroom. Or, the (not said in jest) occasional comment that climate deniers should be arrested.
And in general, a campaign of ‘shaming’ people on social media over issues has emerged. I’ve noticed that its no longer acceptable to just ignore people - if you don’t vocally support a leftist position online, you are branded a homobigotfascist. Similarly, at a local university, the BLM crowd tried to impeach the student government - for no particular reason, other than not vocally supporting BLM.
I view these developments as a first step...and it wouldn’t really be that big a jump to imprison people for ‘civil rights violations’ over not baking a gay wedding cake (might have already happened actually), etc.
And just like the Soviet Union, the left doesn’t have to imprison all of us - just enough to instill fear in the rest, augmented with thought police scouring people’s online postings, and imploring children to narc on their parents for being homofascistbigots, etc.