It occurs to me to comment that Communism is really, as I said, a parallel alternative to the “civilizing” narrative told by most Western nations. When we invaded, say, Iraq, we were going to bring democracy and freedom, whether they wanted them or not. We were going to “civilize” them, which is to say import ideas which we liked but which were foreign to them, by and large.
Communism is no different. It is a Western idea, rooted in Western ideals, which seeks to impose a specific vision on any number of different peoples, with different needs, differing beliefs, differing histories, all of which are subsumed into an artificial, and artificially grand, historical landscape concocted nearly entirely from whole cloth by the lazy, bitter, slob Karl Marx and those who came after him.
Communists say “we are here to save you.” They literally told the Tibetans this when they invaded in the 50’s (I think it was). The Tibetans asked “who are we being saved FROM?” There was no good specific answer, so no doubt they were told “from imperialists”. You know, because being made a part of the Chinese Empire protected them from being a part of any OTHER empire.
Or perhaps from “exploitative Capitalists”. You know, of the sort that would colonize Tibet, rape its women and landscape, and leave the people desperate, poor, helpless and friendless, like the Chinese are doing.
Saving people for God and from “Capitalists” is morally equal, with the sole difference that PRACTICALLY Communist have no limits to their rapacity, since the disease itself requires an advanced capacity for self and other deception, and everything is possible when everything is a lie. This means that in real terms, Communists are vastly more dangerous and damaging than Western nations ever were at the height of the Imperialistic Age.
No morally sane person with half a brain should be anything but repulsed and nauseated at Communist crimes, and at the complicity of Western intellectuals in their commission, a complicity which continues to THIS MOMENT.
Joe Biden did not win the election. He and his son took bribes from the Chinese and Ukrainians, and quite possibly the Iranians. And I see very, very few people who call themselves Liberal articulating ANY objections to the sale of America to criminal sociopaths.