WE’RE BEING POLITE: THE GRACIOUSNESS OF ENGLISH CHARITY REGARDING CONTINENTALS A

WE’RE BEING POLITE: THE GRACIOUSNESS OF ENGLISH CHARITY REGARDING CONTINENTALS AND THEIR TOTALITARIANISM.

“When talk about ‘the west’ we’re being polite. What we mean is the countries that adopted the anglo-american system of government as the result of military victories by the English speaking peoples. If the second world war or the cold war had ended differently, [the continentals] would not be westernized today.” — Daniel Hannan

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“”What we [english] invented was constitutional liberty. … Our concept of democracy is a guardian of individual freedom rather than an expression of the will of the majority. ..our system, which is practical, individual, and points to specific rights contractually guaranteed. … Ours has worked better. It didn’t ever fall to fascism or communism or revolution.”