Authoritarianism is at least honest. Constitutional republics and democracy slap a veneer of legitimacy over the top of the brutality. Arguably, it does mean some of their own enforcers still believe in liberty to some degree, but it also makes it so much harder for the general populace to believe the government is their enemy.
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One of the major problems that cause this citation is corruction. But don't think that authoritarian countries are exempt from it. You should know that communist propaganda is based on lies and deception, to achieve indoctrination. It is also real the situation that the United States has been going through for years, the rampant migration and increased crime are factors that can de-activate and fracture civil rights.
Would you believe that violent crime has been declining in the US since about 1990? I don't trust the government or law enforcement, but one of they few things they seem pretty honest about here is FBI crime data. The Clinton-era gun ban did not cause the decline, because it was imposed after the trend began, and the trend continues after the ban ended. It continued to taper off even with the post-9/11 economic crisis and war propaganda, and has remained fairly stable in spite of economic crisis and civil unrest. Only the reporting has changed.
Migration is another issue blown way out of proportion by people with an axe to grind. Only empires at the tipping point or beyond truly fear poor people coming in. Meanwhile, the drug prohibition and enforcement is what fuels gang violence more than anything else, and the solution is freedom, not border walls and more cops.
"Let them in!" the "compassionate" left used to scream, right up until the moment that it became apparent that all those refugees were fleeing the results of US foreign policy, then mass immigration became a problem for them. Create the third world, import the third world, become the third world, just not in my backyard. That is the neoliberal playbook in a nutshell.
Funny how the US government doesn't want refugees from Cuba, BTW. I wonder why that might be...
Actually, no I don't. The US government wants only those immigrants who will vote for more government, hence they don't want people from Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine, etc., but anywhere else is fine. And the more trouble those immigrants cause, the better, because it provides yet more excuses for international interventionism; it's a positive feedback loop. It's also one of the oldest tricks in the book.
It is true about the drugs, I agree with you 100%. But migration can increase unemployment and criminality, remember all migrants do not arrive with the willingness and desire to work. In the case of the Cubans, which I am unfortunately, I cannot say that all of them arrive because of political problems although they do arrive economically, but there are always many who are sent by the Castro dictatorship and work as spies or agents, as has already happened and now with this exodus it has been much easier, an example of this was the five that were more than 30 so the great majority had time to escape to Cuba. The problem of the weapons, if it is more complicated, if they make it illegal, then they will traffic it like drugs, that is something complicated, although every time I see a news of a school shooting, it is very unfortunate. And sorry for saturating you with my comments.
Immigration does not inherently fuel unemployment or criminality. A welfare state and prohibition laws do, though. Immigrants are a just convenient scapegoat for those who want to avoid the deeper issues at hand.
Weapons are not the root problem. School shootinngs were almost nonexistent until after Joe Biden and company pushed through the gun-free school zone act. Victim disarmament and systemic societal issues are to blame, not freedom. But again, guns are a convenient scapegoat.
Conversation, even when it is a heated debate, is welcome. You're not being rude or anything. This is far more productive than Web2 social media where karens call names and make wild accusations against anyone who dares disagree. You're not calling me a groomer or a child murderer, after all.
It would never be my interest to offend or disrespect you, besides, in my case it is by far very educational, so I understand your point of view that you live there. Thengo to my parents and sister living in Miami, but they are country people, so this topic is not theirs. I have learned that this administration is internationally recognized as being a bit incompetent, but hey, they only have one more year left in which they can continue to be even more disastrous, I guess.
I concluded long ago that the primary duty of each administration is to make their predecessor look competent and level-headed in comparison. If I am right, we're in for big trouble no matter what after the next election.
The next administration will have great difficulty in making it appear that this administration has been competent. To top it all off, the president has had some pretty big moments in which he has made some big mistakes.
That made me chuckle.
You know I'm a dictator, right? - Aleksandr Lukashenko