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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if part of this is because, especially if you living memory of the preceding monarchical period, presumably the last authoritarian was the one who opened up government to democratic practices, meaning they very well might have been atypically benevolent. That said, this could be completely nonsense. Literally just an avoiding-work-thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not really. In my experience it's that the last authoritarian was the same ethnic group as a legacy group often in power, and so there worst effects didn't hit most people from that group. It was also a period of respect for the authoritarian, so fear alone wasn't what drove compliance with laws. So people conflate what amounts to a homoginized ethnocentric power structure to the benefits alone. It's really not too dissimilar from the MAGA ethos that things were better "back then" and it just so happens that "back then" was before the Civil Rights Movement.