The Pope keeps acting like a Catholic
That isn’t an accident.
That venn diagram is damn near a circle.
You could calculate Pi with this Venn diagram
So… at about 9m16s, he admits that it’s not just the conservatives that do this sort of thing / have authoritarian undertones. And he’s right… but it’s a point that’s downplayed. Most political parties are marching to an authoritarian drum at this point.
Well yes, but it’s a big spectrum right? Most workplaces are authoritarian so we have habituated. A shitty boss who schedules you badly is not a slave owner. The cons are pro-oligarch, believing that merit is demonstrated by wealth and sometimes breeding. All the parties accept a monarchy even a bit, sorry Bloc, and have a traditional leadership structure so some authoritarian tendencies are everywhere.
Conservative parties throughout history have trended toward either aristocratic stratification and sometimes despotic populism. It’s not even close, and disingenuous to both-sides it. Tankies would be the closest comparison.
