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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because Trump has genuinely said that he'll become a dictator if elected.  The choice is between democracy and authoritarianism.  It's that simple.

Also, he'll be dead in four years.

Trump is the difference.[/quote]

But progressives are also totalitarian
-Environmental laws and regulations-gas is evil and we must not use
-Pronouns and gender
-Roads and suburbs are evil and must be eliminated
and list goes one

At this point we just need to choose the totalitarian regime we can tolerate. [/quote]

Please look up what totalitarian means.  You’re misusing it. [/quote]

+1 and for the PP's reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism

"Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society. In the field of political science, totalitarianism is the extreme form of authoritarianism, wherein all socio-political power is held by a dictator, who also controls the national politics and the peoples of the nation with continual propaganda campaigns that are broadcast by state-controlled and by friendly private mass communications media."

I'm not aware that progressives come anywhere close to this. However, there's only one party trying to prohibit opposition and control the public and private sphere of society and it ain't progressives.
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[i]To make matters worse, the current ‘great awokening’ of parts of the activist left has accelerated the shift away from freedom. Woke progressives are increasingly embracing essentialist group identities. Ambiguous notions of ‘racial equity’ threaten to replace equality of opportunity with an anti-liberal equality of outcome. In this process, justice for individuals is routinely being replaced with justice for groups.

Leaving behind universalist ideals, however, undermines the principles of democratic equality, regardless of whether this assault is orchestrated by the right or the left. While the dangers of far-right ideologies of exclusion are – with good reason – widely discussed, the increasing anti-universalist tribalism in parts of the left is frequently glossed over as irrelevant or a right-wing illusion.[/i]

https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/the-lure-of-progressive-authoritarianism-5543/

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