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Apropos of another conversation, if progressive/left wing people got our ideal world, we would be happy.

if the hard right got their ideal world, they'd be miserable as fuck, because their worldview is centred around constant outrage at the state of the world and having an "out group" to rant about.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Also the right’s ideal world is completely incoherent and impractical, a contradictory fantasy.
in reply to Sarah Brown

I suspect that they would start to turn against each other, looking for a smaller subgroup of themselves to abuse as an "out group."
in reply to Sarah Brown

Didn't play out that way in the 20th Century fascist states.
in reply to Mark vW

@Mark vW Huh? They were utterly riven with infighting. They couldn't stop turning on each other.
in reply to Sarah Brown

I don’t think the majority of them would be miserable in a sensible socialist ideal world, as the goal isn’t to make one group miserable but rather make everyone happy.

That’s the difference for me, anyone who needs to make others miserable to feel joy are terrible people who shouldn’t be in charge of anything anywhere.