[MD] Is this the inadequacy of the MOQ?

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[dmb]
> Totalitarian ideology...[is] intellectual?

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Yes, of course, hence the term "ideology". For most of human history
the (non-intellectual) operative slogan was "Might makes right".
>From Marx to Mao, totalitarians have operated under the principle
"We know what's right, you better comply". Some want to reject
totalitarianism because it's a social pattern. Fortunately, it takes
reason to distinguish high- from low-quality ideologies,
as we saw in the U. S. on Tuesday.
Craig