This is why Communism lasted for 70 years

Because noone ever wants to admit that they might be wrong or that they might not know or that they may not understand. Especially on the biggest issues. And especially the people with the most authority and visibility and with the most to lose.

The world is in love with force and pressure to get what they want. It's an everblooming romance. A terribly dysfunctional relationship between on-again, off-again lovers who can't quite figure out that bullying and a sustainable, functional relationship are mutually exclusive.

What we need to learn, at this point, is how to leave behind our inner bullies. And as long as we don't, we should learn to expect that things will be fairly fucked up.

The Soviets dealt with a bloody civil war, mass murder, political imprisonment, a nuclear arms race and a Cold War, wars and policies of communist imperialism, the Berlin Wall, relative poverty, a closed and suspicious and unproductive political system, and so many violations of their major and minor liberties for 70 years before they finally faced up to the legacy of force as a governing philosophy.

How long will it take us?