This is what happens, almost naturally, when elected institutions are sabotaged. Authoritarian start to look good. China is getting props for their heavy handed response while Korea is the only one carrying a banner for sensible, privacy-respecting democracy.
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Pretty sure he’s not talking about authoritarianism though- more the appointed/hired bureaucrats who have made our cludged together system sort of work in the past. They don’t (in theory) change things themselves, they just keep things moving. And the current admin HATES them.
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So, my intuition about unelected technocratic institutions is that they can be pretty great as long as their function and authority is well-defined and there is some mechanism keep them competently on task and within there jurisdiction.
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My take is that I freaked out earlier this week because this virus may undermine my plans to move; initially I resorted to "American freedoms" rhetoric, but in reality, we would be more likely to be able to travel freely today if our government had mirrored China
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I'm not an anarchist, but the anarchists I know seem to be handling this pretty well, throwing themselves into mutual aid activities and so on.
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