They are totally doctrinaire. Old USSR was infamous for their "mental health" gulags.
Old USSR:
Someone says/does/publishes something Soviets don't like.
Soviets seek to prove in court that they were influenced by reactionary/capitalists/foreigners that introduced ideas/polluted their thinking etc....If they could "prove" outside source, then execution or long jail sentence for sedition/treason.
If they couldn't prove such connections, there was no "not guilty" option. The back-up plan was to say, "well then, he must be crazy" and ship them off to an asylum.
We're living the same playbook over again because the leftists overtook education and didn't teach what suffering socialists have caused in the last century, and instead fed propaganda to the young (also forbade education voucher systems to keep the money pouring in)
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