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[-] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

if you want to implement unpopular policies, authoritarian regime is the way

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The depressing thing is that fascists are popular enough to gain power. The populist pose, some scapegoating of minorities, and a dash of lying about their goals, is enough to win over many voters, and in a first-past-the-post system it doesn't matter if the majority of the people don't like them.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Pretty much sums up the UK since 2010.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sums up many places, unfortunately.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The market is authoritarian.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's not necessarily true, many supposedly democratic regimes consistently pass unpopular policy and don't pass popular policy. E.g. welfare state cuts to expenditure in education, healthcare and pensions in post-2008 EU, or the lack of progressive policy in USA healthcare.

It's precisely this ignoring of the popular will that turns people to fascism

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