I consider myself a libertarian socialist (probably more like an anarchist at this point). What that means is that civil liberties are my first value, the basis of classic liberalism. It is a huge irony that Democrats in this last decade have completely abandoned civil liberties, and can now be found actively advocating for authoritarian governments and arguing arcanely against basic human rights whenever they feel uncomfortable or unsafe for any reason. They cannot conceive of interacting with and coming to have common ground with what they conceive as "the enemy." Their solution is to shut them up. As they pull up into their tribal mindset, their criteria for citizenship in their tribe becomes more and more hysterical and unhinged, so that now, for example, anyone who questions the science of Pfizer is "far right," or who questions permanently mutilating child bodies as "hating trans people." I challenge the notion that more Republicans than Democrats have installed "right-wing dictatorships" here at home and around the world--both parties are equal opportunity offenders, since both are completely owned by American corporations who actually run the government in association with our security agencies. Since corporations tend to thrive under totalitarian governments that can be bought, those are the governments we install, no matter who is president or in Congress, whether it is Eisenhower, Truman, Reagan, Kennedy, Carter, Bush, Trump or Obama. We have even overturned the governments of our allies to make sure they were more amenable to our corporate control. The party makes no difference, because the party is not the one running the country, nor is the president. The character, personality and intelligence of the president makes not the slightest difference--those are only distractions from the machine operating in the background.