We’re the world’s last indispensable nation, …… our only honest choice is greatness. A liberal democracy is a great treasure but it needs to be defended precisely because of it’s inability to control thought.
Krauthammer wrote: Bourgeois democracy is “the most free, the most humane, most decent political system ever invented by man,” he writes, “and the most banal.” Hence its problem.
Liberal democracy defeated totalitarianism, but it can’t replicate totalitarianism’s most defining and attractive aspect: a sense of purpose and belonging. Democracy is designed to be spiritually empty, designating means (elections, parliaments, markets) but not ends, which are left to the individual. This is liberal democracy’s chief virtue, and also its weakness.
There is also the tendency in a liberal democracy to follow charismatic people instead of those who are right. The colorful, the courageous instead of the correct. .
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