“As anybody who’s read John Stuart Mill ... knows, liberal democracy contains a rich and soul-filling version of human flourishing and solidarity”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/how-democracies-perish.html?_r=1 …
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Replying to @Vermeullarmine @avermeule
The rise of liberal democracy overlapped with industrialization and modern sanitation (enabling anonymous cities). Critics of democracy are obviously confused about what liberal democracy caused because their arguments leave out what rising living standards caused.
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Replying to @futurepundit @avermeule
Isn't this even more true for defenders of democracy?
9:56 PM - 12 Jan 2018
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