Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-25008763-20150403210013/@comment-25008763-20150408001314

every fictional dictator will have allusions to real world politics, usually Nazism, fascism or Communism.

Glimmer however could easily be any.. she isn't just "pony Stalin".. like Hitler she lies to the masses, like Stalin she promotes "equality" but holds herself higher than anyone else.. like many fascists she is willing to silence any opposition with loud (sometimes even physical) aggression.

in the end however, she is none of these things : she's a unicorn who happens to be "evil" or at the very least "morally dubious".. when making "evil" or "dubious" character we're always going to go for the Big Three (communism, nazism and fascism) in terms of negative philosophies because they are the ones media has been exposed to so often.

Glimmer is more like Big Brother than anything or the "Nanny State", which tells people what to do while locking itself away and forming a "tyranny of the masses".

remember, even Hitler promised "equality" before he got in power.. doesn't mean anything really.. to be truly communist she'd need to be clearly stated as such : Equestria just doesn't have that kind of politics.. it's a world of fantasy.. she's no more a "communist" than Sombra was a "fascist".