Get a better understanding of the growing threat to democracy in Europe

FYI to get a better understanding of the growing threat to democracy in Europe below is an interview with Dr. Ulrike Guérot, German Political Scientist by Dr. Pascal Lopaz, Neutrality Studies as they discuss the end of reason and democracy in Europe.

All my best to you,

Dave Mulinix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vVPQ6PZY8

Ideology and manic war-narratives have eaten up the European leadership and the technocratic apparatus the continent is built on. The very institutions that were supposed to function as guardians of civil and democratic rights are now being weaponized against those ends. And the people committing these violations are doing so while yelling that the OUTSIDE is full of authoritarians. Pascal Lopaz talks again to Professor Ulrike Guérot, one of Germany‘s most famous and outspoken political scientists. They‘ve talked before among other things about her political persecution at home in Germany but today we want to focus on her new book, called „Zeiten Wenden” – or – “Changing Times: Schematics about the intellectual situation of the Present” in which she explores and says goodbye to reason, democracy and Europe as we used to know it.
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