One reason why authoritarian regimes govern poorly is that they devalue rationality: they deny the existence of reality, and sooner or later, reality will catch up
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Only if the majority of the population has the ability to think rationally. But, that is obviously not the case in the US. 75M Vote GOP, 125M are #TooLazyToVote, 20M #UnableToVote will do NOTHING to influence Non-Voters or CON-VOTERS. 220M are the majority, who guaranteed authoritarian leadership.
sep 16, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes and no. Most “authoritarian “ regimes as anglo west would call it in nonwest are governed much better than if they adopted western style democracy. See china. Russia. Or just ask real chinese or Russians www.worldbank.org/en/news/pres...
sep 17, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
That said. Maga is anomaly for usa tradition. Its horrible for usa. Also maga is much less rational than places like china or russia. Maga is more pol pot kim and mad king style imo
sep 17, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
Let’s hope it’s sooner
sep 16, 2025, 5:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Recent history gives us absolutely no reason for optimism on this point.
sep 16, 2025, 8:13 pm • 2 0 • view
They never learned the lesson of Chernobyl. Lies create a debt that must be paid. youtu.be/5aNxqbZDNBM?...
sep 16, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
They can try but they can’t hide. This is from Jeff Teidrich’s article yesterday -
sep 16, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The did this back in Bush Jr’s term also. Head in the sand
sep 16, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Reality will certainly catch up - but only after mowing down ranks and ranks of innocents, and rolling over the bones of innumerable shot messengers on its way to the throne room.
sep 16, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascist violence often comes from the need to intimidate people into acquiescing to the ruling fantasy of a bunch of incompetents.
sep 16, 2025, 5:12 pm • 4 1 • view
Those who cling to the myth of white supremacy have always had to go to EXTREME measures to deny what they feel in their guts. It torments them as nightmares each and every night. They act out their fears, posing as powerful, to try to forget what they know: white supremacy is just a weak illusion.
sep 16, 2025, 6:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolute truth. The most defining feature of every conservative I have ever known is their self image cannot stand even the barest touch with a reality of their shitty fucking values turned into policy.
sep 16, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 0 • view
It was removed because it is simply not true… The Democrat organization KKK was wiped out long ago. It has morphed into other Democrat hate groups now.
sep 16, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
The plan may be to eliminate rightwing violence by embracing it within the state's monopoly on violence. Then there will be no more rightwing violence.
sep 16, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Which was the whole point of Legasov's monologue in the trial scene in the last episode of Chernobyl. "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid." youtu.be/5aNxqbZDNBM
sep 16, 2025, 5:30 pm • 2 1 • view
As long as they control the media and turn people apathetic to news, it will not matter whether it catches up or not
sep 16, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup. Eventually reality bites and it's got teeth like a fucking sabre-toothed tiger.
sep 16, 2025, 5:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Here's a study they can't take down. www.csis.org/analysis/ris...
sep 17, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
Not soon enough.
sep 16, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no other reporting on this. Is this the study to which they are referring? web.archive.org/web/20250911...
sep 16, 2025, 5:36 pm • 1 0 • view
A quick online "Duck" search tells me yes, this is the one. Thank you Internet Archive/Wayback Machine.
sep 16, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view