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... A Chinese student reflects on why her country is authoritarian—and how democracy has a chance. <em>Look for AP’s symposium on the China challenge, in partnership with the Hoover Institution, in early spring.</em> ...
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... One of the worst aspects of current politics is the bipartisan consensus that America kind of sucks. On the left you have the relentless negativity of woke politics. On the right you have the relentless negativity of Trumpism. ...
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... There are some insights from this [article](https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/dreaming-of-democracy-in-china/) by an anonymous writer - particularly the categorization of China as an egoist society. Although this is probably not due to the "Class struggle" as suggested by the article. ...
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... That is can serve as framework or foundation for building consensus among the community of inquiriers. ...
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... The so-called liberalism democracy as of now is still more like an oligarchy republic (as envisioned by the founding father). Will it morph into something different when social group competition completely disappears? I.e. when there is only one social group: the human race. ...
... Does that mean will can have a more radical democracy? E.g. instead of voting for policies, each person simply submit their prioritization of her desires and needs. Then the government (human or AI) will simply produce a policy that maximize utility for the entire human population. ...
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... But without state competition, there is no guarantee that a unified global liberalism democracy community won't fall into a totalitarian regime. Most of the analysis from Fukuyama's end of history would fall apart in a scenario in which state competition no longer exists. ...
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... The danger of the mobs and demagogues have always been a central risk in the Athens democracy, the Roman Republic as well as the Venetian Republic, ...
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... In modernity, the further is represented by liberal democracy while the latter by nationalism. In *End of History,* Fukuyama took one paragraph to dismiss nationalism as an irrational one in contrast with the desire for recognition at the individual level. ...
... It's more evident that the majority of a social group is prone to manipulation, be it religion, ideologies, etc while liberal democracy is just one of them to support elected orligarchy. And that is supported by group competition theories. ...
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... The so-called democracy is basically populist politics normalized in an oligarchy. The legitimacy problem - i.e. how the members of the society accept the political institution, is only a problem within the elites. ...
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