Hundreds of proposals in Project 2025 match Trump's policies
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Classic hegelian dialectic. For example, porn is extremely destructive to society and terrible for your brain and sex life. However - A) government has no right to exist and B) no one has a right to stop you from viewing porn or people from freely creating porn if they want to do so. Getting people to cheer on these authoritarian measures is playing off of people's sense that things are degenerating due to the decaying moral compass of the population at large and their desire for a "savior" but at the end of the day as long as the "savior" is big daddy government the control system continues unabated. We have to quit using porn because we are evolved humans, not because we are threatened at the barrel of a gun.
Authoritarians don't have to believe in anything except their own power, or in the case of useful idiots, the power of the few over all others. That's why we have to be on guard against it from any ideological direction - left, right or otherwise.
It's interesting that you used the barrel of a gun metaphor. There is a complete ban on pornography in China, and it was Mao Zedong who coined "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Yeah ultimately its the governments ability to project force that coerces people into compliance hence the gun metaphor. And that ability literally comes from the mind control of the populace, specifically the useful idiots in the police and military. These people either believe in government authority or they are willing to accept a paycheck to do something they know is immoral.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_the_barrel_of_a_gun