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Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

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«In communism as in liberal democracy we encounter the same peculiarity: what is incidental is treated as a systemic problem, which means that everything that happens is systemic and nothing is incidental to the system. Therefore it becomes natural for true liberal democrats – as it was for true communists – victimize their colleagues because of an occasional comment, or a lack of vigilance, or for an inappropriate joke, making life difficult for undisciplined people with constant warnings and creating new rules and stricter laws. By doing this, the self-proclaimed guardians of purity see themselves as those who carry on their shoulders the future of liberal democracy around the world. If it weren't for their effort and dedication, this great political undertaking, they think, would experience setbacks, and this must never be said. As in any system built on violence and lies, in communism this belief a little’ paradoxical in the contemporaneity of invincibility and vulnerability could be easily explained. It was felt that even just a few true thoughts and ideas, once publicly recognized as such, they would have exposed the falsity of the entire system and finally made it fall. Even the system's most deluded supporters knew that the truth was its most powerful enemy. And it was the truth in an almost literal sense that brought him down. In a liberal democracy this way of seeing things seems absurd, because the system is stable and the principle of freedom of speech is written into the Constitution. But those who hunt down political incorrectness and work to strengthen political correctness believe or perhaps unconsciously think that the stability of the system is not as strong as is naively believed, that free speech is not as problem-free as some bad actors believe it to be.". (R. Legutko, The Demon in Democracy – Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, pp. 103-104). Read More