Hate Mail - I'm still sick, I'm not bothering to write a new answer, here's one I wrote answering that

The Humanities Major Atheist Solution

Though never a whiz with the math,
And so on to science, no path,
I'll fake it with attitude,
Materialist platitude,
And pseudo-historical wrath. 

If the things I'm writing about the relationship of the pseudo-liberal atheists' claims about such things as the First Amendment (now articulated by the fascists on the Rehnquist and Roberts courts and the alt-right) and TV creating and putting Trump in office are hard to follow, it's because such things are complex and harder to follow than simple physical phenomena.   

It's not my fault if you can't keep up, it's obvious that the guarantees that the ACLU and such people as Nat Hentoff and the civil liberties industry made us about the results of their interpretation of free speech and free press and letting Nazis and fascists and, their intended beneficiaries, the red-fascists of Marxism say whatever they wanted to really benefited the billionaire sponsors of the first two.   Liberals who fell for that stuff were totally chumped by them.

I think the real key to understanding the Marxist dictatorships of the 20th century up till today isn't in their ideological claims, it's to consider them the same way you would any powerful crime syndicate and the tyranny they exercise over their turf, corrupting any civil authority they can buy off elsewhere.  That is how Putin turned the United States into an asset, though exploiting what the Courts and civil liberties industry did for our domestic billionaires to corrupt the country, the same media, the same weaknesses enhanced through the media and PR techniques, the progressive dumbing-down of The People by Hollywood and pop culture.   

Putin is no idiot, he's been trained by the same Russian-oligarchic tradition that has been chumping American lefties since before John Reed destroyed the the high-water mark of high-leftist political accomplishment, that of the Socialists in 1919.   The Soviets and later the Maoists instigated the most tragic chumping of the American left for most of the 20th century, the reason that the major success of the American left was through the religious left, especially under The Reverend Martin Luther King jr. and other associated RELIGIOUS groups and entities,  the anti-communist parts of the labor movement, and the Democratic party.   It was when the "new left" took over in the 1960s that that began to unravel, liberalism went into the political wilderness where it still is, led farther into it by such rags as In These Times, The Nation and such frauds as the Green Party.    As a former chump, I'm very familiar with that territory.