What does need to be restated is that democracy (which we wrongly mentally associate with “freedom”) has been redefined to be exclusionary rather than inclusionary, despite stated claims to the opposite. The confines of democracy are narrowed all the more as time goes by. To not adhere to the tenets of liberalism (…
What does need to be restated is that democracy (which we wrongly mentally associate with “freedom”) has been redefined to be exclusionary rather than inclusionary, despite stated claims to the opposite. The confines of democracy are narrowed all the more as time goes by. To not adhere to the tenets of liberalism (in its three flavours: centrism, conservatism aka slightly-slower liberalization, and turbo liberalism aka authoritarianism) is to be left outside of the acceptable scope of democracy, meaning that you are anti-freedom at best and a Nazi at worst (unless you fight for the Azov Battalion in Ukraine). Authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia who fund NGOs in tandem with arms exporters and energy multinationals use these same NGOs as end runs around democracy, but if you protest at the scale of immigration that your country is engaged in, it’s you who is opposed to democracy.
To quote Niccolo Saldo:
What does need to be restated is that democracy (which we wrongly mentally associate with “freedom”) has been redefined to be exclusionary rather than inclusionary, despite stated claims to the opposite. The confines of democracy are narrowed all the more as time goes by. To not adhere to the tenets of liberalism (in its three flavours: centrism, conservatism aka slightly-slower liberalization, and turbo liberalism aka authoritarianism) is to be left outside of the acceptable scope of democracy, meaning that you are anti-freedom at best and a Nazi at worst (unless you fight for the Azov Battalion in Ukraine). Authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia who fund NGOs in tandem with arms exporters and energy multinationals use these same NGOs as end runs around democracy, but if you protest at the scale of immigration that your country is engaged in, it’s you who is opposed to democracy.