Davos Woman And Her Wars - The American Conservative

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Here is Legutko, in an excerpt from his excellent The Demon in Democracy, discussing the strange similarities between the Soviet barbarians who took over Poland, and the softer, more sophisticated ones that moved in after the fall of Communism:Their strikingly loutish manners and coarse language did not have its origin in communism, but, which many found astonishing, in the patterns, or rather anti-patterns that developed in Western liberal democracies.
51% : The former liked to say that "but in communism", "because in socialism", and suchlike, and the "argument from communism" was always the most ultimate of all ultimate arguments and by definition irrefutable.
50% : So are Belarus, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Hungary, and potentially many others.
50% : It is therefore hardly surprising that just as "communism" (or "socialism") was the favourite word of the communist man, "democracy" has been such a word for the liberal-democratic man.
50% : The number and frequency of the words "communism" (or "socialism)" and "communist" (or "socialist") in the ancien régime are equal to the number and frequency of the words "democracy" and "democratic" in the new regime.
47% : In both systems, man compensated his commonness with the image of a large, well- functioning system: communism in one case and liberal democracy in the other, which, through the pursuit of collective goals - such as equality for all, peace, prosperity, etc. - released him of a necessity to seek personal excellence and to aspire to the ideals that from the perspective of the political system might look redundant.

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