Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
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