> Are there no degrees of authoritarianism in your view of governments?
> Are they all domineering brutes? Sandinistas didn't shoot their
> opponents, which might have been a mistake.
Of course there are degrees of authoritarianism.
Are you saying that the fact that the Sandinistas didn't shoot people is a reason for supporting them? How do we know that they wouldn't start shooting opponents once they held power for a few decades?
Chuck