Largest gathering of conservatives each summer held in denver, colorado. Everyone from secretary of housing and urban Development Ben carson to donald trump who spoke last night. Tonight we will have andesentative dan crenshaw Robert George from princeton university. A big gathering of conservatives across the country that come here to rally for faith, family and freedom each summer. Host you just said the western conservative summit is the largest gathering of conservatives outside washington. Wire the summits so important to conservatives . Absolutely. For 363 days a year, from most of the media and from other politicians, we hear things like our beliefs are backwards, we need to abandon our biblical principles. They are outdated, old. We need to leave them behind and for two glorious days, conservatives get to rally with each other in support of founding principles of this country of things we care so deeply about like faith, family and freedom and in places like colorado where cons
This was written just before the collapse of the soviet union and thehe idea was there did sem to be this process of modernization. That was development. People want to live in modern societies the kind of modern society that we seem to be any at that with liberal democracy and marketbased capitalism that socialism. And assist with getting off this train of history one stop before the communist marxist said we would get off. Professor Francis Fukuyama you were talking there in 26 about 1992 book the end of history and the last man. Did what you said about liberal democracy, as a standup today . Guest yeah, actually that clip was remarkably coherent. Since 2006 i think we seen a lot of regression in the progress of democracy all over the world. Freedom house, that tracks global democracy has noted we had 17 consecutive years of decline in the aggregate amount of democracy. I think the world really looks different in many ways than it did back man. But the question i was trying to raise
Liberalism and its discontent. Humankind over the centuries has seen an evolution. We go from hunter gatherers to Agricultural Societies up through the industrial revolution. There is a process in which social institutions become more complex. They develop certain features. Marx said this process would culminate in a communist utopia. I think most progressive intellectuals for the 100 50 years after the communist manifesto believed the history would be communism. My argument was we did not seem to be going there. This was just before the collapse of the soviet union. The idea was there was this process of modernization. People wanted to live in modern societies but the kind of modern society was liberal democracy and marketbased capitalism, not socialism. We are getting off this train of history one stop before marx said we would get off. Professor Francis Fukuyama. You were talking in 2000 six about your 1992 book, the end of history and the last man. What you said, does it stand up t
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