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kudzu (06-21-2018)
ThatOwlWoman (06-21-2018)
socialism and communism have both given us examples of totalitarianism.......nazis in Germany, the USSR, China are all examples.......can you give me an example of a conservative nation that became totalitarian?......by the way, Italy had the only communist governing party in Europe for decades.......
Guno צְבִי (06-21-2018), Phantasmal (06-21-2018), ThatOwlWoman (06-21-2018)
By liberalism I mean the original political philosophy called by that name—the one espoused by John Locke and embodied in the Bill of Rights.
Liberalism is based on the hypothesis that people ought to be maximally free, with the government intervening only to the extent required to protect their freedoms against abridgment by their compatriots or by enemies abroad.
This was a radical idea in the eighteenth century, when few people had much education and the general public was routinely slandered as ignorant and untrustworthy. Locke himself feared that the public was so mired in “passion and superstition” as to be apt, as Voltaire put it, to act irrationally and “speak without thinking.”
Sharing such qualms, many of the American founders described the newborn United States as akin to a scientific experiment. “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1804, “and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.”
Liberal democracy—the form of government in which a majority can elect leaders but not constrain human rights—has survived innumerable social experiments to become the choice of more than a third of all humanity and the stated preference of most of the remainder.
Phantasmal (06-21-2018)
and?......does this mean you are also making the claim they are totalitarian?......
do they fall under this description?
If so I am surprised the EU hasn't chucked them out.......centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
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