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Hey, MAGA Fascists: Dictatorships Always Fail — Pt. 1
There are lots of successful democracies, where are successful dictatorships?
The Premise of Authoritarianism
The premise of authoritarian governments is that greater centralized control over the policy-making process means that dictators should be able to enjoy greater freedom of action and faster political results than democracies.
Without the democratic attributes of constant partisan infighting, competing special interests, reliance on electoral approval via public opinion, or protections of minority rights, autocracies ought to be, in theory, streamlined paragons of governmental success and straight line policy implementation. That’s what wannabe dictators and their bootlickers insist.
Authoritarian regimes also should, in theory, benefit from the advantages of state-sponsored corruption of all aspects of political life, such as tight control over the media, loyal police and paramilitary forces, rubber-stamping legislative bodies, and willingly partisan judicial courts.
Yet the theoretical advantages of authoritarian systems leads one to ponder, where are the successful authoritarian governments in the world today? Just like the…
