> Ideally, I do like authoritarian governments, just not ones who show no loyalty to the people which they govern over. I don't know how to reliably achieve that. One could say "well, we need an ethnostate" but China is such a state, and so is Russia and see how that worked out for them. One of the other problems with an authoritarian government is you're gambling that each ruler will be good and just. If you get a bad one the entire system falls apart. Just a simple glance over Rome's history and you can look at the great things that a strong man can accomplish, and the ruin that he can bring. To my mind that brings too much fragility into the system. Plus it's *almost* always the worst of us who lust after power. And if there is a strongman position, it will be lusted over jealously. Then again, a Republic (if you can keep it) has many of these problems as they have historically always drifted towards authoritarianism, oligarchy, despotism. I don't know what the right answer is.