• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think this is a stick in the spokes for them, considering how popular chauvinistic geopolotical approaches á la “that country is fucked because all its inhabitants are too dumb to make a liberal democracy work and fight corruption”

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        You get your liberals that are fully fans of the system but even among those who aren’t and do despise their own government(s), which is a lot more, they usually seem to think it’s them - the individual - holding up civilized society as some sort of Atlas figure, along with a few (houndred) thousand of the other good ones or so. Sort of like a very micro version of great man theory