Can it ever be legitimate to compare today’s increasingly post-democratic Western ‘democracies’ to Nazi Germany and the USSR, as so many people do these days, in the era of Comrade Sir Keir Starmer? Yes and no simultaneously. On the one hand, there are no death camps or torture centres here, and we aren’t invading Poland. On the other hand, freedom of speech and conscience are clearly under severe and increasing attack.
Many would soothingly say that ours today is as yet more of a soft totalitarianism, a diluted, almost homeopathic-level one, compared to the far more intense horrors of the Nazi and Soviet past. Yet, a soft totalitarianism is still a form of totalitarianism, and it appears to be hardening fast, not least when it comes to the issue of state-enforced LGBT-worship.
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