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ionelvWhile reading the conversation between Ernu and Racu about Stăniloae, legionarism and BOR, it dawned on me that liberal democracy more often than not overlaps almost too perfectly with Santa Claus: a nice soothing grandpa that makes it all better by doling out free gifts at periodic intervals …
…except of course that he is not our grandpa, he exists only in our collective imagination, the gifts are not free as we always pay for them one way or another and with interest, and the joy brought by these gifts only lasts a few days as the bill eventually comes for these gifts and the monotony and dreariness of our normal existence resume until the next gifting event. There is also some Sisyphean angle to Santa Claus and liberal democracy, but that is a discussion for another time.
…except of course that he is not our grandpa, he exists only in our collective imagination, the gifts are not free as we always pay for them one way or another and with interest, and the joy brought by these gifts only lasts a few days as the bill eventually comes for these gifts and the monotony and dreariness of our normal existence resume until the next gifting event. There is also some Sisyphean angle to Santa Claus and liberal democracy, but that is a discussion for another time.
