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RedditFeb 09, 20191 min

The growing incoherence of liberal democracy

It's very hard to imagine a stance like this from a POC office holder in the Democratic party in the US. She's either more independent than anything we see here or the liberals in Canada are less tightly organized. (Even taking into account that she got fired.) In a way she seems to see the paradoxical nature evidenced and obscured by liberal concepts (even if she ultimately believes in them herself.) Does Wilson-Raybould, then, exercise her own charisma of "grace"? I would just say that pursuing justice on the (admittedly highly vitiated) terms of a post-sacrificial order doesn't necessarily involve believing in the myth of the "rule of law" (even if in this case she probably does). An absolutist order would have law, and judges, and we would want them to be impartial--the difference is that we would understand that it is a moral person applying laws with an eye to their moral content, not an abstract mechanism of calculation that removes the need for judgment from individuals.

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The Canadian order is obviously different in many ways from the American, but certainly in no way more than in the role played by the native peoples, who are completely irrelevant in American politics.

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It seems to have a phobia of chains of command. All the identities basically name categories of people who can't be commanded.

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