J Lou on Nostr: liberalism, the political philosophy, itself isn’t responsible for these atrocities ...

liberalism, the political philosophy, itself isn’t responsible for these atrocities because the philosophy doesn’t imply or support them. Adherents being able to take illiberal actions is a critique of that liberal democracy for not effectively restraining power. The US’s checks on power have proven to be quite weak, its first past the post voting system is deeply unrepresentative, and various illiberal historical decisions exacerbate that.