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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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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