There's a difference between "obedience to a authority as a guiding instinct" and "agreeing with the political goals of authoritarians, and then finding that th

There's a difference between "obedience to a authority as a guiding instinct" and "agreeing with the political goals of authoritarians, and then finding that they've taken over and are doing what you want". One thing I find very frustrating about articles and books like these, and about governance in the US, is the lack of awareness by the Professional-Managerial Class that there are factions within the population that reliably support any form of government you can think of, no matter how "backwards" or violent it is. It is only through the federal and state partnership in law enforcement that multiple regions of the country don't devolve into various flavors of revolutionary communism, theocracy, monarchy, petty-warlord-ism, etc. The educated person's obsession with "democracy" as a guiding light becomes increasingly naive as the pool of voters expands to capture every individual, as "democracy" in the case of the US actually means "a very strict limit on what the People are allowed to vote for". The constant shock by ostensibly intelligent people that huge groups of Americans broadly support policies the PMC has labelled as "fascist" or "archaic" makes me more convinced that they don't realize that the US is kept in line at gunpoint, not by some voluntarily and consensually held allegiance to internal pacifism and democracy. An example: what form of government do you think street gangs prefer? What about white collar criminals? What about cops?