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How important is the rise of authoritarianism?

#Poll #EvanPoll

  • Very important (92%, 981 votes)
  • Somewhat important (4%, 47 votes)
  • Somewhat unimportant (0%, 7 votes)
  • Very unimportant (2%, 24 votes)
1059 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

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It is important because we need to know it is happening, and how to challenge it.

Being ignorant of this rise, just throws open the door unchallenged, once they take hold our ability to challenge will be taken away.
important, but in like, a very bad way
I wouldn't use "important" I would use "worrying" 😀 (very).
I voted "somewhat important" rather than "very important", because I think to some extent this is a symptom, rather than a cause. There are conditions outside the narrow world of formal and electoral politics which favour the worst kind of outcomes within that world, and as long as those conditions remain, that is the kind of outcome we can expect. Of course those politicians then re-inforce the conditions (such as general concentration of wealth, and especially ownership of mass media).
Very but sadly still not the Big Bad yet...

More like one of her Dragons.
Yeah, I ended up wondering today where Mike Flynn wandered off to. January 6th was in many cases just another test run for such attempts around the world. The craziness in Brazil is part of a growing movement, it seems.
i am SO CURIOUS about the people who are saying “very unimportant.” trolling culture is virtually nonexistent here so far, so, like … are they just really not paying any attention whatsoever? or is it a weirdly translated cry for help borne of psychic trauma and denial, a poll-reply version of screaming “i’m not owned” into the void? genuinely very curious what the dynamic is there.
@hilljam I wonder if some people interpreted unimportant to mean undesirable.
from Paranoia, the last words of The Computer: “Those who do not know the past are doomed to reboot it”
It's important not just because they'll take over some places and do horrible things but because an environment where authoritarianism seems desirable is not one conducive to creating wealth and technology to solve the problems of the world.
I didn't understand your question... authoritarianism sucks 😔😡
@oigreslima It's seven words. What part did you not understand?
How so "importatnt? How dangerous would be more suitable, IMHO!
@oigreslima

You should definitely do your own poll with the wording you prefer!
Thanks. I don't want to ask anything. I just exercised my freedom to comment on your poll. That simple
Ffs, my phone slipped as I was voting and I ended up voting the exact opposite of what I intended...
This is among my most responded-to polls, and definitely one of the most lopsided.

I am a strong yes also.

I came of age as the Berlin Wall fell, at the so-called "End of History", when liberal democracy was triumphant and global cooperation seemed inevitable.

I think many people of my generation have had a sense of inevitability about the continued opening of the world. It was a natural progression that would happen on its own.
30 years later, it's clear that the promise of global cooperation and liberal democracy lies unfulfilled for many, maybe most people.

Many people turn to the comfort of nationalism, or even more restricted loyalties.

The growth of human rights isn't a natural process. We have to work for it. It takes time, energy, and will.
cue the "wave" passage in Fear And Loathing in LV.

Yes, we must not give up despite our disappointment.
heard "unfulfilled promise" of Bitcoin...born of 90s internet optimism and a desire to bypass the credit card processors that quickly dominated online commerce...co-opted by libertarian anti-government...uh...morons...
I'm curious to know what place in the world resembles a democracy. I don't see any in the present and I don't see any in the past.

P.S. #FreeJulianAssange
Approximately 24 people have some explaining to do

...but I don't want to hear it.