Re:Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
by thriftwy on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:27PM
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If the people in e.g. Russia are mostly convinced, how would that happen? Putin is still going to win "elections". As Belarus example has shown, prolonged and violent protests will not help in the slightest but only cause backlash. Then liberalism loses due to being non productive - a theoretically good idea which does not have a path to implementation.
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Re:Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
by medo-bear on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:49PM
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i think people in russia are largely sceptical of liberalism due to the huge mess it caused during the yeltsin years. yelsin, a hard core liberal, by the way ordered the army to shoot its tanks on the parliament in 1993 [0], and had the support of the liberal west to do it. today (and since the fall of ussr) the biggest opposition in russia comes from the communists
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_...
Re:Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
by thriftwy on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:06PM
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Even if people become largely sceptical of Putin, he's not going away unless he choses to. So, being sceptical* of Putin is another example of unproductive behavior; and prolonged unproductive behavior is a sign of mental illness according to DEG.
* in any way that exhibits in your behavior