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	Podcast:		Ideas
	Episode:		The three ingredients in an autocrat's recipe for power
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:34
	Publish Date:		2025-05-16 22:10:00
	Description:		There are three components that could end constitutional democracy as we know it, says scholar Peter L. Biro — fear and its weaponization, habituation which involves the consequence of not noticing, and the 'stupidification' of our minds and of our discourse. He argues that we, as law-abiding average citizens, have the power to save our democracy and defend against backsliding forces. Biro recently delivered a keynote address at the ominously titled conference, Liberal Democracy in the Rearview Mirror? at Massey College in Toronto.
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