The danger that threatens us is the total totalitarian empire Komeni Mao Stalin are they left or right totalitarianism is neither left nor right and within its empire both will perish. The stubborn struggle between left and right seems to me obsolete and quite provincial I hate to participate in political life although politics fascinates me as a show  a tragic deathly show in in the empire to the east and intellectually sterile but amusing one in the west. We're seeing populism versus democracy well not populism versus democracy but like autocratic populism versus well it's sort of like a a creeping kind of like power. should hit no nothing that came up in my research i have some words and interview quotes from Kander