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Nathan Woodard's avatar

This is the best analysis I have heard or read since this whole strange episode occurred. Another great piece from a great thinker!

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Vladan Lausevic's avatar

Very important with civic action and engagement. Even a oneday dictatorship is still a dictatorship

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Tom Herbert's avatar

Maybe Tmp will learn from this.

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Wayne Karol's avatar

Yoon's own party helped stand up to him. Hmm...

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Daniel Lee's avatar

"Liberal democracy, it has been said a million times before, is such a dull, procedural affair that it often struggles to rally deep emotional attachment even from its supporters."

I honestly don't know what world this refers to. America, at least, absolutely revels in its role in helping establish, expand, and defend freedom and democracy around the world. Memorial Day. Independence Day. Labor Day. Every sporting event from t-ball to professional championships. The Pledge to the Flag. School board controversies. Examples go on and on. It's hardly a dull, procedural affair, especially since Trump came on the scene.

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Ray Andrews's avatar

Yabut America is the exception. Mind, more and more of the democratic world is becoming the exception too. Meaning that most of the time since the end of WWII until a couple of decades ago, most of the West had pretty boring politics -- crises rare, stability taken for granted. Even in America domestic politics more or less hummed along as it should -- until Trump of course.

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Daniel Lee's avatar

True enough, but I'm not completely convinced that politics humming along as it should qualifies as boring, at least not to adrenaline junkies.

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Ray Andrews's avatar

You get the point tho. As the author says, SK has just had a mini trauma that does wake people up. There's a dilemma there -- we *want* our politics to just hum along and yet one can get complacent. Before the rise of the Orangeman I myself just took it for granted that nothing would or could ever shake American democracy to it's foundations. I was wrong.

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