I was reflecting on it and I think for most American libs, reckoning with the principled anti-imperialist positions that they encounter on here is probably just asking a lot, psychologically speaking. It's a real "are we the baddies?" moment where you have to really entertain the possibility that all that surrounds you is legitimately evil and has been that way for a long time. It's much easier to think that Russia is behind the fascism they see around them than to face the reality that that's the essence of America itself.