There's nothing new under the sun, really. This was no different than the stuff I saw years ago to show that there was really no difference between the Soviets and the U.S., and that there was no reason for conflict.

And it was all perceptual back then, too. Soviet kids liked candy, Soviet families went on picnics, Soviet people did all the same things American people did, so where's the problem?

Abstract political principles? History? Individual rights? What are those?

So now we have a leftist movement cheerleading a culture that believes things that would have had old-style real liberals running screaming into the night. But with the Left, nothing trumps their hostility for the West, not even a real theocracy, not an imaginary one.