Why can Democracy ensure Liberalism for a long time?
Democracy is the tyranny of an elected leadership. While it theoretically cannot violate the rights of the minority or more generally the individual rights of the citizens – it will. This is because a dictator will always abuse its power, and can modify the law if it wants to. The separation of authorities helps very little. The parliament will pass anti-liberal laws, the government very much likes them to be passed. It all comes down to the supreme court that has to decide if to accept them or not. It may accept them or it may not. Even if it does not, similar laws will be brought up at a later stage. So who will watch the watcher? In a Distributism-based system no-one holds absolute power and bad decisions cannot affect distinct entities. For instance, Linus Torvalds decided to use BitKeeper, a proprietary product with many restrictions, for maintaining the Linux kernel codebase. Many co-developers of the Linux kernel joined him. This did not cause open-source projects to convert to
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