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Authoritarianism and democracy are not mutually exclusive.

• rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago
  Authoritarianism does imply reductions in democratic voting. Democracy and the erosion of human rights are not mutually exclusive, which may be what you meant.
• unishark 5y ago
  Liberal democracy has that liberal part though, which means rights and freedom and is pretty clearly in opposition to authoritarianism.
  • glial 5y ago
    Sure, but there is a strong current trend towards illiberal democracy throughout the world (Brazil, Hungary, Poland, arguably USA).
• fakename11 5y ago
  They are more orthogonal than dictatorship and authoritarianism though