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We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
centuries-old institutions are increasingly inadequate for confronting ascendant authoritarians. Merely defending a certain sort of democracy is no way to help democracy as an ideal.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
It would be naïve to assume that any liberal democracy (or any society) can long survive with all of its conceptual foundations gutted. Either it will collapse into civil conflict, or those foundations will be replaced brick by brick by the New Faith, until it is transformed into an unrecognizable edifice that is neither liberal nor democratic.... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
Because it prescribes government of the people, liberal democracy can be only as strong as the people who live under it.