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...

Stepping back from "liberal democracy" for a second, I think it's hard to dispute that the US does actually have "meme pluralism". There's two major tribes that push very incompatible memes, and there's further complexity on top, including a very mainstream elite contingent that believes US liberal democracy is fake.

Maybe we need a 2 state solution. Greater Ohio and communist coasts and each can run their memes themselves