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I stumbled across this long paper on the Internet Archive that looks at how democracies slowly break down over time, using history instead of today’s news cycle.
What stuck with me is the idea that pushing too hard toward authoritarian control doesn’t always “work” the way people assume. The author argues that at a certain point, things are more likely to snap or fall apart than settle into some stable strongman system.
It’s long and definitely not light reading, but it didn’t feel like propaganda or a rant. More like someone trying to seriously think through where things might be headed if current trends keep going.
Posting it here in case anyone else finds this kind of analysis interesting. https://archive.org/details/us-authoritarian-drift-papers
I stumbled across this long paper on the Internet Archive that looks at how democracies slowly break down over time, using history instead of today’s news cycle.
What stuck with me is the idea that pushing too hard toward authoritarian control doesn’t always “work” the way people assume. The author argues that at a certain point, things are more likely to snap or fall apart than settle into some stable strongman system.
It’s long and definitely not light reading, but it didn’t feel like propaganda or a rant. More like someone trying to seriously think through where things might be headed if current trends keep going.
Posting it here in case anyone else finds this kind of analysis interesting.
https://archive.org/details/us-authoritarian-drift-papers