nearly everyone is an authoritarian. nearly everyone is stupid too so it tracks. your typical smokthbrain has a list of dos and dints that, if they had the chance, would enforce on the population with an iron fist. and of course for everything they rhink should be enforced theres a bad behavior they think should be protected by inalienable rights. so, op, i dont assume authoritarianism is stupid. there are rational reasons for it, but stupid people are authoritarians by default.
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