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.

I don't like the article right from the get up because Noah is wrong. He was raised In a liberal democracy that defeated authoritarianism yet 35% of his income is taken from a barrel of a gun to pay for socialist causes. Communism is dead? Poppycock.

Imperialism is gone until US needs oil. 

CCP exists...

good thing socialism doesn't have to mean authoritarianism and can be part of a reasonable, hybrid capitalist/socialist liberal democracy.

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Sure if it isn't coercive, but a "liberal democracy" is coercive. You're forced into it by birth your neighbors decide how much of your income is stolen from you. They can even force you to get a vaccine or be exiled/imprisoned.