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Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Democracy and Propaganda
In his 20 fifteenth book, i try to argue that the central problem of democratic political philosophy is how democracy leads to tyranny. Dating back to plato, the issue with democracy was its stability in the face of free speech. Democracy forces us to allow any one to seek power and then it gives you tools like freedom of speech. You can do anything with your speech. So it allows into the space of politics people who seek only personal power. And then freedom of speech allows them to do whatever they want. Someone who should never be in politics in the first place, will come in with an appetite for power,. spread fear of foreigners, of internal enemies, represent himself as the only protector
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