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Chris Fox's avatar

My own politics falls more into a leftist authoritarianism tempered by benevolence. The fact that we can't do anything about mass extinction, AGW, or guns because freedumb makes me long for a trustworthy dictator, which is of course a fantasy,

To those who revere freedom my advice is to go to a mall and see what splendid use we're making of it.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

I used to joke that the ideal government would be a benevolent dictatorship with me as the benevolent dictator. Authoritarianism tempered by benevolence seems too difficult to achieve in practice thanks to the imperfection of humans.

The struggle is between an authoritarian government which seems to become tyrannical with all that power over others, and anarchy which becomes the realm favorable to the mighty and violent. Opinions, string ones, vary about there a happy medium can be found.

I once lived under a somewhat leftist authoritarian government as a United States Marine. While it worked, it also didn't.

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