"... in today’s world, there can be no liberalism without democracy and no democracy without liberalism" which is why liberalism is dead.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2019/03/14/feature/the-strongmen-strike-back/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fd07ca4feb0e …
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... It is only when liberty grounds itself in something more resilient than the whim of the masses that anything realistically called "liberalism" can exist (as it did before the universal-democratic disaster).
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... "This revolutionary [AI-dense Cyberspace] development erases whatever distinction may have existed between 'authoritarianism' and 'totalitarianism.'" -- As if the distinction between 'democracy' and 'totalitarianism' hadn't disappeared first.
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IBM and the telephone did wonders for authoritarianism’s ability to control. I’m laughing at sections of this desperate attempt at a Pep Talk by Kagan.
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His entirely magical notion of "liberal democracy" in which individual rights are by some obscure mechanism (* waves hands *) 'protected' is utterly laughable.
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