TASTE OF FREEDOM
Citizens of non-democratic nations sometimes taste and enjoy samples of democracy’s sweetness, either through international travel or Western images missed by the government internet censor of their respective homelands. That those samples cannot be un-experienced is potentially very problematic for authoritarian/totalitarian governments. With greater democratic liberties typically comes weaker national security, and vice versa.
For example, watching the small amount of news feed leaving China in late-autumn 2019, one could see TV images of some citizens being literally dragged — a few even by their legs — back into their residences to help contain COVID-19 viral transmission.
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