> But China proved you can pair authoritarian politics with a market economy. It offers a bargain we thought impossible: prosperity without freedom
It seems like politicians in liberal democracies are giving up on democracy and turning to authoritarianism instead.
But since 2008 it’s become clear to many people that these liberal democracies are actually governments owned by the upper class.
It’s not that politicians are turning away from democracy. They are throwing the mask off. What they envy is the ability to exercise power without disguising it.
That’s not going to cure our problems. It’s actually the narrow self-interested decisions of the upper class that have landed us in this state of decline.
It seems like politicians in liberal democracies are giving up on democracy and turning to authoritarianism instead.
But since 2008 it’s become clear to many people that these liberal democracies are actually governments owned by the upper class.
It’s not that politicians are turning away from democracy. They are throwing the mask off. What they envy is the ability to exercise power without disguising it.
That’s not going to cure our problems. It’s actually the narrow self-interested decisions of the upper class that have landed us in this state of decline.