Robot Emperor wrote: That this notion (liberal democracy) is being obscured and is under attack from a multitude of directions without millions taking to the streets in its defense is mystifying to me.
Amen to that. It has become a dirty word to left and right and blamed for many problems that are beyond its scope in a global Corporatist stitch-up.
Not that this is new. I remember my o-level economics teacher (this pre Thatcher and not long after the three day week) gloomily predicting the death of capitalism as a vigorous force at the hands of an international Labour movement let in the back door by careless liberals.
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