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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Oct 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Mike Lee

    Counterpoint: democracy is the objective, both as something good in itself and because it contributes to other forms of human flourishing. Authoritarianism doesn't contribute to liberty, peace, prosperity etc.https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008 …

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    Mike LeeVerified account @SenMikeLee
    Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.
    6:37 AM - 8 Oct 2020
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      1. Rob‏ @endaround_ 8 Oct 2020
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        Sen Lee is basically cosigning the Chinese Communist Party's ruling philosophy.

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      1. Tom Shipley‏ @therealtomship 8 Oct 2020
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        this is how the Soviet Union came to be. The revolutions of 1917 aimed to create liberty, peace and prosperity. Out of that aim grew Soviet Russia because of people making the same exact case that Mike Lee does here.

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      1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 8 Oct 2020
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        Democracy doesn't guarantee good outcomes — nothing does — but it provides accountability when we don't get them. Leaders say they want less democracy to give us better outcomes, but what they want is less accountability.

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      2. Thomas Bartscherer‏ @TBartscherer 8 Oct 2020
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        Glad you’re being more precise than Sen. Lee. Please go a bit further. Is democracy an absolute good? Or should there be constraints on democracy?

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      3. Angel Josué Arias‏ @ajarias1926 8 Oct 2020
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        @TBartscherer, Sen. Lee is on to something. Democracy is only the subject matter and freedom its content or end. Now, the questions you propose are the appropriate ones, and I think that we have avoided the subject for too long. Is Democracy part of the Good or the Good?

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      1. Lesley Morton‏ @LesleyMorton 8 Oct 2020
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        Oh but it does for the authoritarian and his followers. That is the point. Authoritarianism good when we are in charge. #Hypocrites The best thing to come out of the last 4 years has been the undeniable exposure of the pure hypocrisy that lives in the R party!

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      1. Scott Cory‏ @scory 8 Oct 2020
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        The lack of knowledge of political history and philosophy, or the willing abuse of that knowledge is stunning.

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      1. Hermann Neutics‏ @CharlieHuisken 8 Oct 2020
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        Off topic? Wondering what your take is on the new Thomas Frank book, *The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.* Maybe I missed your review....

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      1. Myra Fleener‏ @MyraFleener 8 Oct 2020
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        conservatives don't want people to participate in the functioning of government. they never have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw …

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