Re:US Supreme Court leaves protections for internet companie...
by hayst4ck on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:36PM
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It is an eye roller for me as well.
Democracy is not something you are, it's something you do. That means it is not a black and white state, but a summation of the spectrum or beliefs, actions, and culture held by a population. When there are cultural changes that has an effect on the degree of democracy.
Here Timothy Snyder explains what the politics of inevitability is and how Walter is likely a practitioner of it and how that leads him to wrong conclusions (and there are other videos that explain Walter's American exceptionalism and why it's wrong):
Democracy is not something you are, it's something you do. That means it is not a black and white state, but a summation of the spectrum or beliefs, actions, and culture held by a population. When there are cultural changes that has an effect on the degree of democracy.
Here Timothy Snyder explains what the politics of inevitability is and how Walter is likely a practitioner of it and how that leads him to wrong conclusions (and there are other videos that explain Walter's American exceptionalism and why it's wrong):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8