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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years 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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