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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And societies continually overwhelmingly reject values and systems they once overwhelmingly supported. That is why the society we have today is so different from early modern ones, medieval ones, ancient ones.
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This is the wide scope. We can look closely at how well governments reflect the will of the majority and find they are failing on certain issues but step further back and look at the big picture in line with social & intellectual & cultural changes.
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We can point that out the majority of Germans were not in favour of Nazism but it happened anyway. It was still a product of political & intellectual developments which existed in that time & space. It could not have been formulated in that way in any other time & space.
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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty! A very astute thread.
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