Just one man's opinion but I would prefer *not* to live in an increasingly authoritarian society. Things don't tend to work out very well for people like me in authoritarian societies.
Things don't work out well for anyone other than the autocrat. I think that's the defining characteristic. So, how can everyone else survive the wrath of an authoritarian regime?
doesn't matter the authority, it's authoritarian
it the totality of the government and its absoluteness that is against the people
totalitarian if you please
and if not, okay
the grim irony is that it's not even guaranteed to work out very well for The Most Perfect Skull-Haver if you become even mildly inconvenient to any one of the myriad people who can use force with impunity
I don't understand the mindset of those that do. They clearly don't have the mental capacity to see that they'll have no power. Too dumb to realize how unimportant they are.