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.
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.