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by noworriesnate
2185 days ago
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> it is because openness and democracy triumphed before How do you think openness and democracy triumphing cause the rise of autocrats? Are you referring to Plato's five regimes theory, where each type of government degenerates into a different government, in a cycle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes |
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Sorry, I expressed myself badly. It doesn't "cause" it just provides a contrast that makes this look as different of what was there before.
If Latin America, Eastern Europe, Middle East and East Asia were still under the authoritarian rulers of the Cold War era, these new autocrats wouldn't be a novelty.
My point is that autocrats failed before and all those places tried democracy. It succeeded in most of them, but a few want to go back to something that is not viable anymore.