I never understand what people expected FDR to have done? Asked Stalin politely? Continue the war indefinitely?

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view the liberal democratic state’s relationship to the broader norms of society.

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Like enlightened absolutism or enlightened technocracy are coherent even if I’m skeptical they would actually work but centralist liberal democrat+a belief that a majority to a politically significant minority of the population is fundamentally illiberal requires a frankly magical

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Besides the historiographical point it’s also just the case that if you’re so skeptical of the vast majority of people to be decent without a centralized state forcing them to be then I don’t really know why you’d even be a liberal democrat.

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the first quebec ref is climate change. the second ref is Don't Look Up. the alberta ref is Digger

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