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Ignoring the more irritating leftists for a moment, most of the left is grappling with finding solutions to real problems. It's not "fuck you, change your life to stop global warming". It's "oh shit, we need to stop global warming and dramatic actions are needed. What do we do?". They are questions in need of answers, and no one is going to like all of the answers. No one ever does. Some answers may be authoritarian, but it's not a desire for authoritarianism driving these ideologies, it's a desire for solutions and too many people have a blind eye to the consequences of their proposed solutions.

Maybe that's too forgiving of a take, but I think you're take is too accusatory.

The right just openly supports authoritarianism for authoritarianism's sake.