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Yeah this is all uniquely American and not prevalent in every society on earth throughout all of human history.
by repentless_ape 3y ago
Yeah this is all uniquely American and not prevalent in every society on earth throughout all of human history.
- pixl97 3y agohttps://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288 https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre... >For millennia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.