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Do you feel that the world is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

It definitely seems like many people are worried that the world is moving toward authoritarianism. You can see signs of this in various places where world governments are tightening control over freedoms, cracking down on dissent, and undermining democratic institutions. It's a concerning trend, especially when you think about how important those freedoms are for a healthy society.

You might be thinking what steps are worlds governments making towards total authoritarianism?

Well let's start with suppressing dissent

They’re cracking down on protests and arresting activists and journalists who speak out.

We all know they controlling media

Governments are censoring news and limiting independent journalism, ensuring only their perspective gets out.

They are always undermining the courts

They're weakening the independence of judges and making laws that let them act without oversight.

Everyone thought google and fuckbook was so great when it came out, but it increased surveillance on us.

More are monitoring citizens through technology, making people feel like they can’t speak freely. Like I'm doing right now, at any moment my door could be kicked in and I would be shot for typing this...EVEN IN THE GOOD OL' U.S. OF A.

How many times have you seen your country leader using emergency powers

Governments often use crises to expand their powers, limiting rights without real checks. Ooo...yeah they get real power grabby there

What about political repression

They persecute political opponents, skew elections, or ban parties to stay in power.

These actions chip away at democracy.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Ironically perhaps, it is precisely in those countries that allow freedom of choice that we see a drift to authoritarian parties and politicians being elected. There are various but likely depend on a mixture of real and perceived national problems and those voters' own desires.

As for surveillance on, and abuse of, social-media, I don't fear that from my own country's government but from external political and commercial forces, and even from users who abuse their freedom of their own opinions to control those of others. (So-called "cancelling", etc. - basically, bullying by cowards.)
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
Yeah, surveillance capitalism has taken the world by storm, however most of what these people want is just to know our shopping habits. and yet people feel intimidated when they know they're being watched they often start to comply a lot more rather than rebel. As for myself though having looked at the types of Data they're gathering I don't feel intimidated against rebellion because I know they're just using it to hit us with Targeted Advertisements and sell us more shit, they don't really care if we're planning to do something.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@PDXNative1986 Absolutely. Someone told me recently that my government was reading every email I sent and knew everything that I logged onto. There is no individual who can cope with that amount of data and even when it's put into an analytical computer, you've got to know what you're looking for to make any sense of it for political reasons. Even in China they have a narrow field of what they're looking for with all of the surveillance. In the end the people who pay for all this equipment want a payback for it through commerce no matter what your political views are.
wrule · F
Yes. India is the biggest example for the past 11 years. Stealing votes is rampant with the party in power trying all its tricks and winning through fraud by deleting names of genuine voters and putting their own fake names of people. Democracy has turned into a Sham-ocracy
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
People are becoming more credulous and willing to believe these peoples' black-and-white interpretation of the world without engaging their critical faculties. Autocrats do not appear out of thin air. They are created by the people.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
A lot of people seem to like a parent figure (usually a father) absolving them from having to think things through. Simplistic solutions are comforting…to begin with.

Edited to clarify the gobbledygook I first submitted.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
They’re putting us in a pressure cooker to advance the next stage of our evolution .we can all feel it . This is the breaking the eggs stage. Let’s see what the omelette looks like.
Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
In the us yes but I think the next couple of elections will swing things differently.
HumanEarth · F
I'm talking globally, as in world wide

 
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