Posted on 03/11/2024 1:42:31 PM PDT by xoxox
There is, in the words, nothing “beyond” politics but ideology, which has left a cultural attitude of passive resignation and a transformation of civilization such as the world has never seen before.
That, on the other hand, was Dawson’s argument as of January 1, 1939, at which time he argued that the problem was not merely a conflict between Democracy and Dictatorship or between Fascism and Communism. It was, rather, a change in the whole social structure of the modern world, which affects religion and culture as well as politics and economics, such that we might expect to see the rise of a democratic totalitarianism.
The phrase is not a paradox.
In other words, it’s not either/or, democratic versus totalitarianism, since the usual thought is that one is the opposite of the other. Here the argument is that we have the democratic right to vote, but after that right is exercised, very little or no participation in the “rule-making” processes of the of the government. Those who have popularized the term tend to argue that the process is akin to an electoral autocracy, which in the simplest terms argues that a single person when elected has subsumed all legal power and makes all decisions by himself: an autocratic boss, in other words, and this is what happens when the White House becomes the grand duchy of Washington, DC.
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Sounds like a paraphrase of Clausewitz. IYKWIM
bfl
the white house is pretty douchy now, if you ask me.
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