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.
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.