Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to aservantofjehovah. I don’t see how that connects with the argument I’m making, at least in any way that rebuts anything I’ve said. To repeat something I said to Roderick Long above, this is a one-sentence summary of my the…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. It seems like you are making my point for me if the Alternatives are not clearly superior ,as is the case in all the examples you give, or there is no true separation of powers or no widespread culture of liberty ,totalitaria…

In reply to aservantofjehovah. Nothing in my post says that voting is the main safeguard against fascism, but history shows us that it is an important safeguard. Fascism came to power in Spain, Germany, and Japan through the electoral weakness of the n…

In reply to mlyoung57. Well, I’m making a proposal to the effect that an assurance contract would help resolve the situation we’re in (or would be in if we faced fascism). In a sense, the whole post is hypothetical, not actual, since it&#82…

America’s founders were suspicious of democracy and did not regard voting as the main safeguard against authoritarianism/totalitarianism. Instead they installed structural guard rails ,separation of powers, federalism ,a bill of rights and the l…