The pairing of "Libertarianism and Authoritarianism" in the title is a striking contradiction in terms. Libertarianism, by definition, champions individual liberty and opposes the initiation of force for political ends—core tenets that clash with authoritarianism’s reliance on coercion and centralized control. This juxtaposition feels like ideological sleight-of-hand, possibly aimed at tarnishing libertarian ideals rather than grappling with their substance. What’s odder still is the authors’ apparent alarm over Musk’s alleged "authoritarian" turn, while they seem to gloss over or excuse leftist authoritarianism—like government overreach or cultural enforcement—that Musk has vocally opposed. If the concern is power consolidation, why the selective critique? It suggests a deeper agenda here, one less about principle and more about targeting a figure who challenges their preferred narratives.

for - webcast - Politics Girl - guest Andrea Chalupa - Organizing against Trump's Authoritarian regime - to - Andrea Chalupa - website - fighting fascism

to - Andrea Chalupa website - https://hyp.is/z4ddwLJpEe-416e2v5yeKw/www.andreachalupa.com/

for - authoritarian regime playbook - take gradual steps to degrade democracy - Trump given permission to perform anti-democratic actions that don't raise red flags

for - AI - security risk - next 1 to 2 years is vulnerable time to keep AI secrets out of hands of authoritarian regimes

What Klein overlooks is the Just Powers Clause in The Declaration of Independence.

It explains that people may only justly delegate powers to Gov that they actually have.

So one cannot, as in this case, "come together and decide" to infringe on the individual right to keep and bear arms because none of the individuals in Columbus have that power as an individual.

They can't justly delegate this power to Gov because they don't have the power themselves.

Hart, R. (2021, July 27). Vaccine Passports Spur Explosion In Vaccinations—And Protests—As Europe Cracks Down On Vaccine Holdouts. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/07/27/explosion-in-vaccinations-and-protests-follow-health-pass-announcements-as-europe-cracks-down-on-vaccine-holdouts/

leadership succession, authoritarian regime, constitutional rules, Africa

Perfectly expresses my orientation and my love of XTC.

Winter, T., Jose, P., Riordan, B., Bizumic, B., Ruffman, T., Hunter, J., Hartman, T. K., & Scarf, D. (2021). Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hu9ef

Deep Concept: Modern America is mostly corrupt from it's own creation of wealth. Wealth is power, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely! Money and wealth have completely changed the underlying foundation of America. Modern America is the corrupted result of wealth. Morality and ethics in modern American have been reshaped to "fit" European Aristocracy, ironically the same European aristocracy America fled in the Revolutionary War.

Billions and billions of tax payer money is spent on projects that could never pass rigorous examination and best public ROI use. Political authoritative conditions rule public tax money for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many. The public "cult-like" sheep have no clue how they are being abused.

The authoritative abusers (politicians) follow the "mostly" corrupt American (fuck-you) form of government and individual power tactics that have been conveniently embedded in corrupt modern morality and ethics, used by corrupted lawyers and judges to codify the fundamental moral code that underpins the original American Constitution.

PsyArXiv Preprints | Vaccine Equity and G7 Summit. (n.d.). Retrieved 22 July 2021, from https://psyarxiv.com/gx87e/

Covid lies cost lives – we have a duty to clamp down on them | George Monbiot. (2021, January 27). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/27/covid-lies-cost-lives-right-clamp-down-misinformation