Democracy can function on recognition by only a minority
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- The 1964-67 second republic pitted democratic nationalists against self-interested sectarian entrepreneurs (similarity 0.82)
- Cultural influence detached from popular masses lacks real political weight (similarity 0.82)
- Humans can recognize thousands while social worlds cater to the least clever (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.81)
- Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems (similarity 0.81)
- Voting system design determines whether majority hatred targets minority candidates (similarity 0.81)
- Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.80)
- Democracy is an unfinished project that must be perpetually remade (similarity 0.80)
- Essentialist identity politics can be a necessary defense where no alternative exists. (similarity 0.80)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.80)
- Modern society replaces stratification with juridification and democratization, both already overloading (similarity 0.80)
- A ruling party exercises hegemonic power without formal juridical rule (similarity 0.80)
- Communities rationally distrust outsiders for lack of knowledge, not just prejudice (similarity 0.80)
- Failing to integrate masses into the state produces a stunted, dependent ruling class (similarity 0.79)