It is dangerous if people think of our liberal democracy as a baseline condition of society, its administration as bad as it gets. Our society is a complex clockwork, much easier to destroy than to fix. The baseline condition is civil war.
So your fields are burning, your children are dying, and your house is gone, but at least you have a good story how the future is going to be better?
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Totalitarian states are incentivized to keep you productive and aligned. (Even if they might do a poor job, and may use terror for alignment.) But civil war means that there is no food production, no way to build homes and infrastructure.
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