That’s not true at all in the west and you are proving my point by saying it. People who support authoritarians will disingenuously accuse democracies of being authoritarians and offer up their own ideology as the superior form of authoritarianism.
I think people who support authoritarians do so because they believe democracy to be an inherently flawed and authoritarian system - but also inefficient and ineffectual, so they would rather “at least have an effective leader” than enable a system that wastes society’s time, and (since they believe it to be authoritarian in its own way) doesn’t reduce human suffering.
That’s not true at all in the west and you are proving my point by saying it. People who support authoritarians will disingenuously accuse democracies of being authoritarians and offer up their own ideology as the superior form of authoritarianism.
There are degrees of authoritarianism. But every state engages in it through policing, border controls, prisons, etc.
Just because some states are better than others doesn’t mean that the state is not a fundamentally coercive institution.
I think people who support authoritarians do so because they believe democracy to be an inherently flawed and authoritarian system - but also inefficient and ineffectual, so they would rather “at least have an effective leader” than enable a system that wastes society’s time, and (since they believe it to be authoritarian in its own way) doesn’t reduce human suffering.