@ChrisMayLA6 So a problem here is that we forget. All the bad things fade from memory and only the good things with authoritarianism are remembered.
How does one make people remember?
As the old guard dies off, the young ones have never experienced anything else, which makes it easier for authoritarians as well.
I wonder what made current young democrats passionate about democracy?
For democracy to work, a culture of democracy must be maintained. For a culture to be maintained, there
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 needs to be values and right and wrong.
If all is relative, no one is right or wrong. I think the wokeness perhaps, is undermining a stable culture, and taken to its extreme, is undermining democracy itself.
Would you agree?
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with only methods that really belong to an earlier phase of democracy - but now they seem viable again, because the normal routes of reform have become clogged with interest (expressed as wealth).
The only way change will come about is if the young en masse want it and organise for it - individual resistance can halted, mass resistance less so (although for me this is different from 'revolution', I can see some would see them as parallel).
by Emeritus Prof Christopher May ;
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