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The End of History

If Books Could Kill

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Is the United States a Liberal Democracy?

He is incredibly credulous about the extent to which countries that claim they are liberal democracies are actually either liberal or democratic. He will describe aspects of the United States as like inherent to the United States while writing off other very real aspects of the U.S. As a country where only white male landowners could vote and one out of every seven or eight people was a slave? Is that a liberal democracy? I don't really think so.

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