"illusion of freedom" huh? Freedom is not an all-or-nothing-black-and-white issue as we all know you like to see things ARTele. Freedom is relative, Americans are more free than Chinese, less free than the Dutch. Many of the objections to ARTele's arguement have been elucidated above and I largely agree with these. How do you propose to assert the Authoritarianism of the American government that wouldn't result in a scenario of immediate civil war? How do you intend to choose and maintain leaders who would be free from corruption, the basic and severe flaw of Authoritarianism?
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