The anger directed against liberal democratic institutions today is so rarely attached to any specific objectives.
Even in a world “characterised by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy”, a renowned political theorist once wrote, people will nevertheless “struggle against that peace and prosperity”. Despite relative contentment with the general state of affairs, “a certain boredom” will drive people to strike against the status quo, tearing at the fabric of the system they inhabit, until they ultimately turn “against democracy” itself.
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