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The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies (Auron MacIntyre)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

CHAPTER

Transformation of Liberal Democracies into Tyrannical Total States

Exploring the centralization of power, manipulation of public opinion, and rise of an oligarchy in liberal democracies through examples like the Floyd riots and pandemic response. Discussing the failure of classical liberalism to prevent the growth of the total state and the differences between the Total State concept and past totalitarian regimes.

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