Liberal Democracies - The Elimination of Hierarchies

Liberalism isn't trying to destroy or eradicate every single hierarchy. The whole idea within western democracy is that the only way that people can be ruled over, where you have a hierarchy and rulership, is with the consent of the governed. We just for administrative purposes. But the prime minister or the president is not really better than everyone else. It's just that everyone has consented to be governed. Thereis a consent that's given by the population that makes it ok for there to be these is of administrative positions. Otherwise it's intolerable for aena monarchy.

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