Every part of this analysis of a fourfold attack on Democracy is true. But maybe we need to take a look at Democracy too and whether our 20th c.-version's time is up. I realise this is easy for a 72 year old 'boomer' to say - having been so lucky as to live my life without having to fight a war or live in fear of a Stasi. But I have lived through a 50 year long period in which we have been seduced by an illusion of Left/Right electoral pluralism; meanwhile - via the agency of our Leftist academia sheep dip - every public and private part our culture has been captured by a bogus but virtually unchallengeable 'social justice' religion with its 90% bogus (and highly selective) victimhood narratives. We in the West have been schooled into an expectation that there is a political solution to every social problem. But maybe the hard truth is that our post-war democratic pluralism has now accumulated problems to which it has no credible solution and so we must wait for some new political arrangements to emerge - whatever these may be. grahamcunningham.substa…
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