This is an excellent essay on the differences and similarities between Totalarianism and today's crop of Populists and how each is encouraged by Liberalism's seeming indifference to its consequences. It is particularly relevant in Aotearoa New Zealand today. Behind both the Treaty Principles Bill and the Regulatory Standards Bill are a narrow set of values ACT is looking to impose on our constitutional framework without reference to the 92% of the voters who didn't vote for them. In the case of the Regulatory Standards Bill, these values have been rejected by two previous Parliaments. At the heart of ANZ's liberal democracy is a pluralistic approach to values. The threat to that and what it means to our shared sense of identity as a nation (who gets to be included, who gets to be excluded) is not discussed within mainstream media although there is lively discussion in same parts of social media. Does this amount to a Coup by stealth? If either bill are enacted, there'll be no going back.
"Lippmann notably identifies the blind commitment to laissez-faire principles as one of the causes of the widespread rejection of liberalism."
From the 1970s onwards, neoliberalism revived these laissez-faire principles, seeking to roll back the mixed economy/welfare state/Keynesian compromise that had saved capitalism. This is an inherent tendency in liberalism, which suggests the need for a break with its Lockean stream
This is an excellent essay on the differences and similarities between Totalarianism and today's crop of Populists and how each is encouraged by Liberalism's seeming indifference to its consequences. It is particularly relevant in Aotearoa New Zealand today. Behind both the Treaty Principles Bill and the Regulatory Standards Bill are a narrow set of values ACT is looking to impose on our constitutional framework without reference to the 92% of the voters who didn't vote for them. In the case of the Regulatory Standards Bill, these values have been rejected by two previous Parliaments. At the heart of ANZ's liberal democracy is a pluralistic approach to values. The threat to that and what it means to our shared sense of identity as a nation (who gets to be included, who gets to be excluded) is not discussed within mainstream media although there is lively discussion in same parts of social media. Does this amount to a Coup by stealth? If either bill are enacted, there'll be no going back.
"Lippmann notably identifies the blind commitment to laissez-faire principles as one of the causes of the widespread rejection of liberalism."
From the 1970s onwards, neoliberalism revived these laissez-faire principles, seeking to roll back the mixed economy/welfare state/Keynesian compromise that had saved capitalism. This is an inherent tendency in liberalism, which suggests the need for a break with its Lockean stream