People really need to read more history. It would help prevent complacency about the way things are now being how they will always be. I'm amazed at people who think a constitution would hold up in a society which overwhelmingly rejected it contents.
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The reaction to it was also a product of that time and space and so is the way the word 'Nazi' is now commonly used to describe the epitome of evil. Some people seem to act as tho ruling powers are completely disconnected from wider intellectual and political developments.
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When in fact, we all progress together with different factions reacting against each other and pushing the Overton window back and forth. We are neither powerless against governments nor can systems we like remain strong if we don't protect their foundations.
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We are currently benefiting from living in secular, liberal democracies (those of us who are) and they took a great amount of intellectual work and moral progress to achieve. Whether they last & continue to progress depends entirely on what we as societies do now.
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The same is true for the Bolsheviks. They never had more than 25% support. Revolutions usually have a pyramid of support, with a spearhead of active participants, and ever larger tiers of less and less involved advocates, passive supporters, etc.
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