A thought just occurred to me- a long while ago(in terms of the story, for me it was just a year) an offhanded reference to the Mentians was made, describing them as "obsessing over esoteric racial classifications that most people didn't understand". I, like those reading it at the time, took this as a sly dig against the OTL far left and went on with the story. But now that we've finally come to the Societist Revolution, I feel like this might warrant revisiting. While there have obviously been great pains taken to ensure that the Societism/Diversitarianism divide isn't just a copy-paste of the OTL Cold War ideology divide, its hard to ignore that the bits and pieces of information we've seen so far have the Diversitarians as more conservative(I remember an intro quote describe censorship laws in the ENA, and since it was a direct quote from a politician who favored them I'm gonna assume its not faked) and the Societists are so collectivist and centralized in culture that there's no way it hasn't spread to their government, something traditionally espoused by the left. Now, with that being said, far-left ideology ITTL is primarily associated with Mentianism, at least in the UPSA, and of course any sort of division is anathema to Societism, so I'm wondering if Societism will wind up moderating itself, at least with regard to the left-right/metallic spectrum, rather than follow the ideology of racialists. Of course, all this depends on whether or not the Combine abandons the heart of their ideology like the USSR did.
