We have been increasingly troubled by the abuse of executive power that inevitably stems from democratic governments introducing emergency measures in the name of public safety to protect scared citizens.
Our musings led us to Austria (where a bloke called Adolf Hitler was born) and an observation on Austria’s Parliamentary website on the necessity for the separation of powers:
History has time and again shown that unlimited power in the hands of one person or group in most cases means that others are suppressed or their powers curtailed. The separation of powers in a democracy is to prevent abuse of power and to safeguard freedom for all.
More to the point of what has happening around the world in recent months, we found this:
As the coronavirus pandemic has spread to all regions of the world, we have begun to see governments respond predictably to the threat by agitating…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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