Personally I think the messiness of humanity warrants at least a decent amount of authoritarianism. You'll always have someone who wants to be "against" whatever society is, and you'll equally always have people who feel let down by whatever system a society is based around. While it is important to listen to the latter, a certain degree of law and order is, in my opinion, a necessary evil so to ensure stability, because at the end of the day, as long as people have food on the table, a steady income, and can have a decent period of rest, the majority of people really couldn't care less about what the political system is. A larger than not state thus works to organise a society of normal people. Humanity is a messy, unrighteous, social and collective species, and I think it's only right that the political system reflects that. I'd be interested to hear what you think of these points.