While I agree with the logic of your essay, I also worry that hate speech works on human weakness and by instilling fear to one's own tribe from the other tribes, can make humans behave in a manner that can lead to a loss of democracy totally. Democracy once lost is very hard to reinstate, as Russia has found out.
While I agree with the logic of your essay, I also worry that hate speech works on human weakness and by instilling fear to one's own tribe from the other tribes, can make humans behave in a manner that can lead to a loss of democracy totally. Democracy once lost is very hard to reinstate, as Russia has found out.
I agree that most of western Europe's ruling order sees losing to far right like a big risk as the far right parties are not fully committed to democratic norms but it is also true that this fear is self-serving as the liberal ruling order does not want to change its stance on topics that are of keen interest to large number of voters, issues such as muslim migrations, social spending, low defense spending to name a few.
While I agree with the logic of your essay, I also worry that hate speech works on human weakness and by instilling fear to one's own tribe from the other tribes, can make humans behave in a manner that can lead to a loss of democracy totally. Democracy once lost is very hard to reinstate, as Russia has found out.
I agree that most of western Europe's ruling order sees losing to far right like a big risk as the far right parties are not fully committed to democratic norms but it is also true that this fear is self-serving as the liberal ruling order does not want to change its stance on topics that are of keen interest to large number of voters, issues such as muslim migrations, social spending, low defense spending to name a few.