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What I find interesting is that the authoritarian right complains about the authoritarian left using "big government" to bully their favorite businesses and organizations, while the authoritarian left complains about the authoritarian right using the police to do the same.
It's like neither side realize that the police are PART OF THAT GOVERNMENT!
Except that what your comment misses is that the right thinks that the left wants to use the government to control their lives and the left in places like the US and Canada is not authoritarian just because they want the most basic government regulations on the practices that we can all see are screwing us over. The problem with your comment is that it acts as if both are operating within the same reality but we can see very fucking clearly that that simply isn’t true.
Conservative ideology is historically always authoritarian, it has to be. It is an ideology which exists to protect the system of a few people on top who own everything else, with a good bit of hating anyone who isn’t a straight, cis man because that helps get the voting base riled up.
That's not the point, the point is everyone wants to pay less taxes but also they want the government to subsidize their industry and run a balanced budget. It's just greed and narcissism, nobody actually wants to make the country better. They just say that to advocate for free money for themselves.