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Liberal democracies can have political conflict, but never in history have they gone to war.
by intrasight 10y ago
Liberal democracies can have political conflict, but never in history have they gone to war.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThere's first time for everything. I don't see anything in liberal democracies that would make them unable to wage a war. Not to mention that regimes change, and their names even more often. Today it's a democracy, tomorrow it gets called fascist, day after tomorrow it goes to war.
- intrasight 10y agoBut it's never happened - let's hope it never does
- MicroBerto 10y agoOdd that right now we're living in an era where the "liberals" have become intolerant and aggressive, criminal war hawks as well as enablers for criminal activity. It might be time we started qualifying what liberal really means anymore.
- intrasight 10y agoI said "liberal democracy" which has a specific meaning and identifies specific countries