Geopolitics

This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose

Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.

Intriguing, and thanks for sharing, maybe liberal democracy thrives best in ethnically homogenous state, while multi-ethnic empires tend to do better under monarchic rule?! What do I know, just thinking aloud here, but compare, for example, 700 years of Switzerland’s democracy vs Hungarian-Austrian empire…

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If your message is, for example, saying it's ok to change your gender to a general public of a 300m people country, just because you're liberal, I think that creates millions of problems which may be worse than an autocrat govt.

And this multiplies by every topic which gets pushed only because "we're liberal", but when it comes to wars, interest rates, allowing AI, allowing crypto - no one can be liberal, can have a say and grow it or push for it - or will be jailed like tornado cash founders recently.