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because they're not actually anti-government. they're just pro-resentment.

I think they think everyone else is stupid. Authoritarianism is fueled by arrogance and narcissism on one hand a wild paranoia about hypotheticals of indeterminate probability on the other.

One of those groups wants to convince everyone that freedom is slavery and vice versa for the sake of power while the other group doesn't care, they're just happy to have what feels like an easy answer to how best to quell their constant low-level existential dread and fear of losing their material comforts.

Authoritarianism is just an anxiety disorder turned into a political disposition by people who refuse to accept that the root of their anxiety is ultimately a matter of their attitude and refusal to accept that the power of an authority is ultimately an illusion, as is 'social order', as well as a constant fear of loss of those material comforts they earned.