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...

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

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.

What I do like is that this image is pretty accurate at displaying how democracy works. Three policemen hold a super majority and are exerting democracy upon their new friend. 

As if authoritarian regimes need a king

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Capitalism and socialism don't exist. They're spooks. hence "hybrid".
All that is are markets, and how freely you're allowed to use them

A true Democracy means that the crowd can determine tax rate on market
In practice we have criminal democracies where political elites choose the tax rate. 

all based on violence

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.

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