especially now , francis fukuyama's concept looks rather stupid against the backdrop of china's gigantic for example, in the early nineties. china was not very strong, it was only rising in its economic development, but now we see that china is catching up with the united states in economic development, political influence has increased incredibly, military influence has increased, china is becoming in many ways in ideologically an example, is already becoming an example for other countries, and the chinese political system can in no way be called liberal. it is not a western political system. some intellectuals go further and talk about the end of the era defined by the so-called axial age. what is the axial age? this concept was introduced by the historian. sociologist karl jaspers, he once drew attention to the fact that over a short period of time, from about 800 to 200 bc, several philosophical, religious teachings: china, india, europe, the middle east, greece, palestine, moses, buddha, confucius, laudziy, plato. aristotle and many other thinkers, they appeared in this relatively s

francis fukuyama barton ghazarian talking, about how the real schism is between the elites, the workingclass. and i think that we're just make the working class even more. does than they already are. i think we have other checks in in any new constitution to continue to have checks against the of the majority. there's the checks that come from separation powers. and i would hope a new constitution would keep it that. i think that one of the genius aspects of the constitution it's supposed to two branches of government do anything. we've developed. since 1787 much stronger cultural commitment to individual rights and a vastly stronger commitment to equal protection. these are checks against tyranny of the majority? let me focus on the electoral college. i can't see the electoral college choosing. the loser of the popular vote is a check on tyranny of the majority. i can't think of any concept of democracy that tells us that it's better to have the person who loses the popular vote win because the electoral college, i don't think that eliminating the electoral college would in any way cau