Except you're the one who introduced the concept of authoritarianism to the conversation. I was talking about fascists because
I was responding to the comment about Nazi symbology,
and I don't think we're really having a debate about "well were the Nazis really fascists or just authoritarians and are the pinkos overreacting to them", are we?
Understood. I jumped the gun and wasn't looking at it under the nazi bird-looking symbolism premise - mea culpa. Put simply, I was maintaining that there are control freaks of both stripes. Again, false start, lane 'moi' ...