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because calling it authoritarianism makes it sound big and scary.... and make sit sound like a battle of good vs evil for all time.
what you are describing... which is simply the routine processes that have gone on for 100s of years in governments... isn't big and scary.
people like this need to look up the Dutch East India company.
When I look back there's several things I find scary. We've had better decades, and I didn't want to go back.
Pointing these things out and running alarm bells is important. That is a systematic recurring problem doesn't change anything about the problems at hand.
Are you saying "there have been things like this before so we should see it as normal and not do anything about it or point it out"?
No, I'm saying people are stupid and ignorant and it's not some big conspiracy. It's just business.