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Constitutional rights don't matter for people if parties with vast economic power can render the exercise of those rights pointless. Most people absolutely wil
by tenebrisalietum 7y ago
Constitutional rights don't matter for people if parties with vast economic power can render the exercise of those rights pointless. Most people absolutely will trade freedom for security, because most people aren't late 1700's frontiersman that hunt for food, defend land from intruders, huddle together in a rickety log cabin built with their own two hands, and die before they're 40. Most people that aren't the elite-very-rich depend on things like stores, roads, cars, jobs, and paychecks to survive comfortably, which is always going to be supported by some balance of corporatism and government.
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- throwaway5d097 7y ago>Constitutional rights don't matter for people if parties with vast economic power can render the exercise of those rights pointless This is an interesting point, but I don't get how that follows from the rest of this post. More corporatism can often lead to worse quality of life as well. By making the lack of rights explicit rather than implicit, the exercise of such rights is made even more difficult. This seems like the kind of thinking from a lot of people in the PRC, and it's not working out very well for them, at least collectively.