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Sadly l think this cartoon would now be banned in USA as they have turned antifa into a formal organisation and smeared it with bad actors from a fake splinter group

Honestly l'm hoping the opposite: the world gets fed up with authoritarian dictators and decides to take the opposite exit from turnstile of democracy, toward Monarchy and empires instead. The authoritarian serves himself, a cult of personality upheld by thugs and fake death threats he authorised himself. The Monarch serves under God and is virtuous. We already have a very good one who gives excellent speeches, he has brains and virtue. He beats most politicians.

I trust you already know that reacting to the "woke brigade" is part of the same coin being er ... how to continue the analogy ... pushed into circulation.  It's ironic that you're buying into the scene while acknowledging the scene. [Not a serious criticism, just observing, you're quite an intelligent guy] Pootin doesn't need to cross seas, when everyone can be pushed down rabbit holes in social media echo chambers, opposing factions that won't debate each other. In comes a firebrand politician. He gets exposed for fraud ... but not jailed. His followers are  actual sexoffenders omigosh. But ... yet .... nothing happens, their popularity increases. Then the biggie: the firebrand himself gets arrested for something repugnant. Photo of him with angry face becomes iconic. And ... yet ... he's teflon, he gets out of it, and eventually becomes PM, his useless thugs now becoming serving politicians. No need for Pootin to  invade, he can create satellite states.    This is just the old Soviet system of repression., gulags. Bring a crackpot dictator out of nowhere, make him win via huge cash injections. Dictator then employs brutes with frankly criminal physiognomy, boney faces with cruel eyes. They are perfect for unquestioningly doing ugly work for the dictator. I mean, separating parents from kids and putting each family member into forced labour or just shooting them dead and selling so seized spoils on the black market. To keep the scheme going, the thugs themselves are of course soon summoned to the Lubyanka house for a quick debriefing, and shot in the neck while being led to the Komissar's office. That's why thugs are encouraged, they're scum and the dictator knows it, he just needs someone disposable and he absolutely does dispose of these lackeys in short order. It's a system with a high turnover, high body count, too much upheaval for any meaningful dissent to gain a foothold.    So that's why there are extreme pootin lovin authoritarians in politics now and they draw on people stuck in social media rabbit holes, the lackeys on social media are the useful idiots needed to take this thing forward. It's not a faux pas when one of them gets shamed for horrible posts or sex offences. It's actually a recruiting drive. They want the sickos to come out of the woodwork because their whole scene is ugly and so needs crappy scumbags.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Junior-History-Tudors-Stuarts/dp/0199181217 I believe this was the one l had at home when l was young, l think it was a giveaway from my local primary school. Profusely illustrated. Sadly l can't find page images online so l can't be sure but the date of 1981 fits the bill.

Thanks Jerry. That makes a lot of sense. I have not studied die cracks much, a lot to learn.