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Liberals Need to Take Their Fingers Out of Their Ears

2017-12-08 61 Dailymotion

Liberals Need to Take Their Fingers Out of Their Ears<br />A system like our ideal liberal democracy, which does not place any constraints on critiques of leaders, authorities<br />and institutions; and does not allow any suppression of ideas no matter how dangerous to the system or objectionable to its citizens; and does not permit itself to select who can come in, or stay, based on their acceptance/rejection of fundamental liberal democratic values, has both:<br />(1) guaranteed perpetual generation of conditions of normative threat, and all the activation, polarization, and conflict that that produces, and<br />If a liberal democracy were to allow those things, it would no longer be a liberal democracy.<br />In addition to the economic setbacks experienced in heavily Republican regions of the country, Schnurer, himself a liberal, argues<br />that blue America has over the last decade declared war on the “red way of life.”<br />He makes a case very similar to Stenner’s:<br />The political, economic, and cultural triumph nationwide of a set of principles<br />and realities essentially alien to large numbers of Americans is viewed as (a) being imposed upon them, and (b) overturning much of what they take for granted in their lives — and I don’t think they’re wrong about that.<br />Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, observes<br />that “believers in liberal democracy have unilaterally disarmed in the defense of the institution” by agreeing in many cases with the premise of the Trump campaign: “that the country is a hopeless swamp.” This left Democrats “defenseless when he proposed to drain it.”<br />are the liberals who are willing to say that liberal democracy has worked?

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