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Re:As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens by tormeh on Monday May 01, 2017 @07:03AM (#14236708)
Change is not imposed from outside. It's just that increased wealth and trade in the end always results in increased liberalism, tolerance and freedom.
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Re:As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens by Camillo on Monday May 01, 2017 @10:41AM (#14237798)
But it doesn't. Even the US is moving away from liberalism. Consider the increasing restrictions on and fading support for freedom of speech, the most fundamental of liberal values.
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Re:As Economy Grows, North Korea's Grip on Society Weakens by tormeh on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:08AM (#14238086)
Yeah, that's the other side of the coin: Decreasing prosperity leads to decreasing liberalism, and in many US and EU regions prosperity is decreasing with predictable political consequences.

The authoritarians of the day don't have a lot of supporters in NY, SF, London or Paris. It's the US flyover states and French mining towns that are turning away from liberalism.

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