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”In my opinion, it’s much sillier to be astonished at nothing than to be astonished at everything. And what’s more: to be astonished at nothing is almost the same thing as to respect nothing. And a silly man is not capable of showing respect.”

“And so it is when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.“

“Oh, no, of course I see people, but nevertheless I am alone.“

Constitutions protect democracy but there are not enough to ensure them for lifetime.
Their openness for interpretation makes them dangerous.

Two fundamental norms are desperately needed for democracy:
Mutual toleration (agree to disagree) & institutional forbearance (patient self-control)

“Even well-designed constitutions cannot by themselves guaranteed democracy for one constitutions are always incomplete like any set of rules they have countless gaps ambiguities.”

“God has never endowed any statesman or philosopher, or anybody of them with wisdom enough frame, a system of government that everybody could go off and leave.”
-Benjamin Harrison

„Whereas old-school dictators often jailed, exiled, or even killed their rivals, contemporary autocrats tend to hide their repression behind a veneer of legality.“
„One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion.“

Since the end of the Cold War, most democratic breakdowns have been caused not by generals and soldiers but by elected governments themselves.
Political party’s are democracy’s gatekeepers.
Successful gatekeepers requires that mainstream’s party come together to isolate and defeat extremist forces (= “distancing“).
Litmus test for identifying antidemocratic politicians.

How can extremists & demagogues get real political power?
Before reformation:
Party is responsible for keeping them out.
It was generally not possible for an outsider to achieve power (due to constitutional conditions).
After reformation:
Party is still responsible.
However there are still barriers for outsiders such as the “invisible primary“ and so on!

„It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”

“Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.”

„Ich hatte gedacht, dass sei ja wohl selbstverständlich. Der Eingang zur Unterwelt befindet, sich in Los Angeles.“

Einfach genial hahaha

HOW COULD SHE
I don’t even know what I can say about this scene.
She really broke my heart with Terrens.
I really thought this was going to be a happy end for both of them.
I imagined them being happy together in the future but I guess I am too good hearted.
This made me really upset.

Even though Terrence did and does so many awful things I just can’t get myself to dislike him completely.
I see a scared and lonely little boy in him that was forced to fight a war although he had never held a iron sword in his hands before.
I actually like Terrence.
In a way his younger self reminds me of myself.

Sometimes the place and how the character goes by in life is so futuristic and other times it seems to be „normal“.

Besides that red and blue are in some kind of rivalry were they send each other letters misteriously and tease each other about their shortcomings or mistakes.

Blue seems to be the more serious one and red the joker.

I can not really differentiate between those two the only thing for certain that I know is that they are on the opposite sides - they are enemies and currently in war.

I am also very confused about their gender at first I thought red was a women and blue was a man but it seems to be that they are both women!

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