confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies

• over the years, we have seen huge setbacks … yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad … setbacks do not mean that the underlying narrative is wrong
• many who grow up living in peaceful, prosperous liberal democracies begin to take their form of government for granted. Because they have never experienced an actual tyranny, they imagine that the democratically elected governments under which they live are themselves evil dictatorships conniving to take away their rights
• the end of history
• the right to dominate

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