because calling it authoritarianism makes it sound big and scary… and make sit sound like a battle of good vs evil for all time.

what you are describing… which is simply the routine processes that have gone on for 100s of years in governments… isn’t big and scary.

people like this need to look up the Dutch East India company.

because when they run a background check on you they see you were charged. and that’s all that matters. you are untouchable to most employers.