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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by agumonkey on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:00AM (#43535171)
> Liberal democracies are build on the principle that no institution is beyond corruption.

It's an ontological issue, if everyone is potentially compromised, how do you know anything ? It's also leveraged by biased medias to discredit old institutions and suddenly no more counter powers..

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by lr1970 on Monday March 31, 2025 @04:30PM (#43539590)
> It's an ontological issue, if everyone is potentially compromised, how do you know anything ?

You just made a strong case for freedom of speech and free press.

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Re:Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-... by nabla9 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @03:44AM (#43543948)
It's the core of liberal democracy.

It's the pragmatic acknowledgment that human fallibility necessitated institutional safeguards against the concentration of power. Enlightenment thinkers like Montesquieu, came up with it.

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