@ChrisMayLA6 centric, your ego takes precedence over all others.
Do you think that distinction makes sense?
The reason I am trying to high light it is of course that I am a libertarian and an individualist, but I do have the capability of caring for others, and I do.
In heated debates online, this fact is very often forgotten.
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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
@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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