[Spooky23]

It was interesting in an earlier time. Today, that's just fancy clothes on a reactionary/right-wing philosophy, a really cynical worldview that creates nasty outcomes.

Translation:

- "Communist at the family level": I like total control.

- "Socialist at the club level.": I like my religious denomination/tribe

- "Democrat at the city level.": Bread and circus for the plebes, but no money or power.

- "Republican at the state level.": Make sure my friends can make money.

- "Libertarian at the national level": Keep government out of our lives, except when I want it in your life.

- "Libertarian at the global level": These barbarians won't subscribe to our ideals of liberty. But, we have tanks to help deliver liberty to them. <enter fascism>

[jerf]

Yes, if you rewrite the meaning of every single word that someone uses, you can completely rewrite their original statement. That's not a terribly meaningful outcome.

Are you sure you want to go with calling someone "reactionary", which generally labels you as fairly far left, but then just agreeing that "communism" is "total control"? I can imagine a person who can make all the statements you made and be self-consistent, but it's an awfully narrow window with a complicated shape.