Just something coming into my mind given all the recent 'new hate speech laws' and seeing the slow growth of resistance to all these decrees.
We've seen all these policies but EVERY ONE of them is a failure due to spotty enforcement (even if by design), negligence, inefficient allocation of resources, extremely poor supervision etc.
Yet we can see in other countries, despite different issues plaguing them, they are able to have authoritarian rule like in China with their social credit score and the like.
Is the main reason why the left is slowly losing every gain they make or attempts to copy authoritarian rule similar to others down to simple lack of basic competency? As I think a lot of people would be ok submitting if they knew that the system was actually ran well.
You're discounting the national and racial character of those subjected to the attempted tyranny.
The Chinese for example, and the Germans as another example, are reflexively obedient to perceived authority and often don't question legitimacy either. They are born to be slaves, whatever word you might substitute.
In the United States our problem is different. We distrust authority on general but we're entirely too complacent and too nice, most people assume that the wickedness of the left is a simple political disagreement instead of reason for their eradication. Thus we're unable to deal with infiltrators and subversives, whereas Arab societies would simply shoot them without any concern for niceties.
Who and what they distrust, and to what degree, is one of the key factors in the character of a people.
That's an important factor but there just seems a degree of which while Stalin ruled with fear and an Iron fist, if the current day leftists tried it they'd accidentally route the trains to gulags to the border of a safe country...
The current day leftists have a level of degradation of society that Stalin would say goes too far. Stalin controlled his own nation with a loyal army of ex criminals. The left of today controls half the planet with fake money, computer programs and an army of gleeful perverts.
And the effect is largely the same. Tell a joke? Get un personed, no more bank accounts for you.
They've used a much softer glove than they did before, but that means nothing as to the scale and scope of the tyranny they can inflict.
Nah, Americans are just as obedient as Germans. After all, the majority of white Americans are German in heritage.
That proves the point. Those people are Germans and they brought German attitudes with them.
Like how Arabs bring rape, and blacks bring violence and theft, Germans brought obedience with them.
Immigration is an act of forceful alteration.
That means America was screwed... what, back in the 1800s?
That's funny, because in Europe Americans are widely regarded as extremely obedient to authority. Not saying that it's necessarily correct.
It was a mistake for the US to leave Britain. Our style of government needs a politically impotent sovereign to keep the government conscious of its station.
If the US hadn't revolted, Parliament would be held in New York City now.
It wasn't a mistake at all. The United States functioned until three specific things happened, each compounding on the other to create the present situation.
Fiat currency, unchecked immigration and universal suffrage?
On the nose.