I think peak-democracy was in the aftermath of WW2 - for a decade or so the recollection of what dictatorship could do, drove a generation to (for the most part) think about democracy & social democracy as the way to save humanity... as those memories faded, so did the notion of a democracy that sought to promote a general well-being.
I also think your distinction is correct; there's nothing to stop libertarian compassion; the distinction is more about what form social responses take
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In response to this post@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
@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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