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.
Orientation with the Good, or Natural Law, or Moral Law, or however you want to put it.
My main issue with our overlords isn't that they're incompetent: it's that they're Evil. If anything, incompetence is a feature since it keeps them from being as effective at carrying out their Evil.
It can be argued that in the past we had a few examples of competent evil but they are few and far between.