Is this the curse of a big population? Too hard to manage unless you use fear and intimidation?

Yes, India, but they are not very "democratic", honestly speaking.

But how come America can do it? Though it's also gradually leaning towards authoritarianism, yikes.

I'm beginning to think a big population is just not suitable for democratic values.

We have to split them up, just like what USSR did, basically the basic logic of antitrust laws, right?

If you become too big, you will start abusing your power and to keep that power you will start abusing your own people, force them to obey, right?

Smaller = easier to manage, easier to form consensus, more united, more personal and generally better.

Also smaller = you can't do large scale bad shyt, even if you want to, unlike PutinZ and Xi.

Also smaller = when bad leaders emerge, they don't have enough resources to implement fear and intimidation policies, it would be like 1 guy vs 10 voters. ehehe.

Bigger = 1 guy with 10 million paid goons lots of weapons = could easily dominate 100s of millions.

Logical?