Liberals will twist themselves into pretzels trying to imagine ways the other side in a conflict is well-intentioned albeit mistaken. If it's just a math error then you can point it out and everything's solved! No one wants to admit that tens of millions of people are just evil.
If a society tolerates individual evil it will probably tolerate institutional evil. It may even tolerate more institutional evil than individual evil because of the perceived unimpeachable mandate or legitimacy of institutions
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Key here is Counter-Power, power (control) is not the only effective force that shapes society. There are dynamics that work against control. For example you can't have feudalism with widespread advanced weaponry.
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