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.
Gonna buck the trend and say Yes actually. And I have proof in a place called Singapore. They have a private healthcare system yet have a public purse for medical procedures. They're a dictatorship, yet the country is run profit first with a high standard of living. They have 3 major racial groups, being Chinese, Thai and Indo-asians yet because of subsidized government housing, they're all forced to collectively come together to be known as Singaporeans. In the video for instance, they recently had one of the lowest percentages of approval for the ruling party, it's not an election rather a census measuring how popular they are every time the cycle comes around. Competent leadership results in high numbers, while corruption and inefficiency results in low numbers, but not enough to oust them.
Singapore is of course an outlier. They're rich enough to actually afford socialist programs, which is how the ruling party stays in power. Meanwhile in the west, they have to resort to growing tyranny in order to hold a grip on power and prop up failing social programs by just printing money.
Singapore forces their citizens to SAVE for healthcare expenses and retirement. Government-subsidized programs only kick in if they somehow manage to deplete their health savings accounts. It isn't "socialized medicine" as understood in the West, where you have overworked Paki doctors moving through long queues of addicts and women trying to get opioids and Xanax.