All political government is authoritarian. Authoritarianism is the whole point of trying to govern others. There’s no alternative kind of political government.
So, when I see a statist complaining about some authoritarian government he doesn't like, I'm amused.
Is he stupid, gullible, or dishonest? Perhaps a combination of those and more.
I know that, as a statist, he'd be fine with an authoritarian government that was doing the evil things he wants it to do. He's only upset that it's doing evil things he doesn't like.
The weirdest statist is the one complaining that a government is authoritarian when it's actually being less evil and authoritarian. It does happen. Like when a statist complains that getting rid of anti-gun rules would be "authoritarian". Methinks he doesn't understand what he's yapping about in that case.
But, if he were smarter, he wouldn't be a statist.
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