Posted on 01/04/2024 11:44:23 AM PST by DallasBiff
Having triumphed in the global conflicts of the 20th century, liberal democracies entered the new millennium with every expectation that the wins would keep on coming. Europe would continue to integrate and strengthen its liberal supranational institutions, as expanding the European Union, the eurozone, and NATO had no downsides. Participation in the global economy would force China to democratize as its growing middle class demanded greater freedoms. Growing prosperity would also strengthen young democracies in India, South America, and post-Soviet Russia. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would stabilize the Middle East and pave the way for reform in the Arab world and Iran. The internet would disseminate liberal culture globally, creating a smaller, more enlightened, more harmonious global community — led by a United States that would never turn its back on the free world.
Needless to say, none of this happened according to plan, and nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, liberal democracy is playing defense while authoritarianism is making gains. The past year has brought no shortage of bad news on this front: In March, China’s National People’s Congress unanimously granted President Xi Jinping an unprecedented third term, setting him up for a likely life tenure. In May, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also won a third term, continuing his 20 years in power first as prime minister and then as president. A spike in migration of asylum seekers to Europe has driven right-wing nationalists and populists to election victories in several countries, including the Netherlands, where the Party for Freedom, led by the provocative Euroskeptic and outspoken Islamophobe Geert Wilders, won the most seats in November’s national elections
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Good Lord - The only authoritarianism I’m seeing is from the liberal leftists who are whining about “muh democraceee” while trying to kick Trump off the ballot because he might win against Joe Biden, the most popularly elected president EVER.
Did people really think Fukuyama‘s end of history was accurate ? Ha
Nah, Mob Rule doesn't have a worry!
World to end this year! Globalists hardest hit.
Leftists are doing everything they can to destroy what’s left of democracy in the USA.
Presidential elections have been rigged for decades with the outlier of Trump getting more votes than they anticipated.
UP WITH THE REPUBLIC!!!
2024 Could Be a Very Rough Year for Democracy, but only if you are not a Democrat, as they are shape the US into their image of a democracy where one one voice, one party counts.
“...liberal democracy is playing defense while authoritarianism is making gains.”
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What that I find ironic are the authoritarian actions taken on behalf of “liberal democracy” in order to save everyone from “authoritarianism”.
Jonah Sharp would not know what a democracy is even if it bit him on the azz
The government of America is illegitimate, totalitarian and hated by over half of Americans. It rules over us in hateful spite doing as much harm as it can. The federal government is not long for this world because it cannot stand long in a house divided.
Yeah, 2016 was in the bag for Hillary, right?
She took off a month or so from active campaigning and didn’t campaign at all in WI. Never believe your own press releases.
Election evening, The Young Turks had her at a 96% chance of winning. I still remember watching them melt down.
In 2020, they weren’t going to allow a Trump reelection. By any means necessary.
I fear what they have in store this coming November.
Good. Democracy is evil. Our Founders knew this and never used the word once in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution.
With any luck, the Republic could reemerge.
Let’s hope so.
Only the most gullible, dense, and Marxist believe Obiden got 81M votes.
He might have gotten 50M-60M and only because the Marxist rats have the worst case of TDS so they weren’t actually voting for Slow Joe, they were voting against Trump.
Too bad so many of the things they get done are the WRONG things.
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