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.
China has gone through several dynasties. The end usually looks like what we see now.
Incompetence has to reach a certain level before it is fought against. Ludwig III had several castles and buildings in his honor before the people and military revolted against him. The French revolution was started by upper class folks who thought they could just control the mobs. China went through 3-4 leaderships last century and we don't talk about it. So the incompetent need to pass an insane level first. I thought it was happening during Covid, but I was wrong.