The German jurist and one-time Nazi Carl Schmitt mocked liberalism as an "endless conversation". To its critics, liberalism is a question without an answer - a torrent of words with no meaning. Liberalism is sometimes cast as a fighting faith, but it is just as easily often derided for its timidity - even complicity -when confronted by tyranny. Nice in theory, but they have not always been delivered nor proven strong enough against assault. An animating idea of democracy that claims individualism, freedom, human rights, and rule of law as chief virtues. What defenders of democracy are more accurately talking about is liberalism. Rather than a fight between democracy and autocracy, autocracy itself thrives within democracy. Each year there are fewer and fewer free, democratic states. They have taken power at the ballot box on a platform of divide and rule.ĭemocracy globally has been in free fall for more than a decade. ( AP: Jose Luis Magana)Įlsewhere democracy has fallen prey to political strongmen, populists and demagogues.
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