Authoritarianism is one of the dumbest ideas that people in the west internalized. Every government has authority by virtue of having a monopoly on violence. The government controls the police and military forces and it’s the only entity that has the legal power to enact violence on others. This is just as true in western “democracies” as anywhere else. The idea of authoritarianism has been very effective at driving left leaning people into a roach motel called anarchism.
If this is what authoritarianism looks like, I’d want that.
Authoritarianism is one of the dumbest ideas that people in the west internalized. Every government has authority by virtue of having a monopoly on violence. The government controls the police and military forces and it’s the only entity that has the legal power to enact violence on others. This is just as true in western “democracies” as anywhere else. The idea of authoritarianism has been very effective at driving left leaning people into a roach motel called anarchism.