By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/05/2026Fascists like Farage and Trump are, at their root, anti-democratic. Their pitch is that the people are incapable of self-determination (as Peter Thiel puts it, "democracy is incompatible with freedom"). 16/ 2173
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/05/2026They want us to think that our neighbors are irrational and foolish, and we, too, are irrational and foolish, and our safety and prosperity is only safeguarded if we seek out the few who are born to rule and liberate them from petty niceties and regulations that democracy and rule of law demand. 17 1202
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/05/2026In other words, the paradigm of democracy is that all of us are capable of both wise self-governance and self-rationalized misgovernance, and each of us has a useful perspective to contribute. 18/ 1113
