liberalism might well have killed the most people of all the major political powers in the past 300 years.

totalitarianism in western countries was too messy for the state to withstand, hence it only lasted 40 years across Italy, Germany, and Spain. But liberalism in the west has sustained endless wars, genocides, dictatorships in the third world, ecological destruction, and more, all with the placid smile of so-called democracy.

What is a democracy if dissent always gets remoulded into consent?