Tag: consent of the governed
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Civilized War Perceptions
The information on foreign war casualties and perspectives I provided contrasts the influence of personal experience versus news media. The tragedy of war understandably makes us skeptical about its necessity. However, media punditry can change civilized war perceptions can to overcome this skepticism. At the time of World War I people got their news from
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The Political Continuum
The first posts formed a miniseries about wisdom. This introduces a new miniseries on the concept of democracy. We begin with a political continuum based on Enlightenment conceptions of the social contract. I covered these in my election year journal, Pandering and Punditry, Entries #9-10. The ruling principle of authoritarian government can be summarized as
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