Williams with Sowell - A Love Affair With Tyrants

I can't imagine how these two intellectual giants sleep at night. I have learned a mere fraction of the knowledge they have accumulated and have a very difficult time coping with the self-destructiveness of the Left that threatens to drag We the People into the abyss.

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Stalin was creating a totalitarian state, Mao was also creating a totalitarian state, there is nothing expressly right or left about a totalitarian state. They may have attempted to justify their power grab with dreams of communism where everyone would be equal and there would be no need for government, however that was obviously not their intent.

Galbraith was an economist and was praising economic transformation in China... it was transforming itself from a third world country to a major economic power. Diane Watson a representative from California who served from 2003 to 2011 praised Castro for being highly intelligent, and for managing to provide health care to all Cubans.

Why is it that some people on the left have a tendency to overlook atrocities committed by authoritarian governments?

The answer is probably the same as why do some on the right tend to overlook atrocities committed by authoritarian governments such as Saudi Arabia or even China today?

Their muddled logic then flows into a discussion of Hitler and how some intellectuals ignored warning signs because they wanted and hoped for peace more than they paid attention to what was actually happening on the ground. Yes, they misread Hitler and if they had been quick to strike first... WW2 might have been averted. At the same time, had we taken a harder line with the USSR during the cold war we might have had a major nuclear exchange.

Then it flows into discussion about the Iran nuclear treaty, where we basically agree to stop relatively ineffective sanctions in exchange for measures that will at least push back Iran's ability to build a Nuclear weapon by at least 10-15 years. On a side note, without the agreement, Iran would probably have been building it's first Nuclear weapon in 1 to 3 years. Would the US have invaded Iran to prevent it from building a Nuclear weapon? I doubt it, which means the world is far better off with the treaty than it would be without the treaty. There is also nothing that prevents us from further negotiations which could further inhibit Iran's ability to build Nuclear weapons.