re: #873 yma o hyd

That, however is what happens to all political ideas, isn’t it?

Liberal Fascism, anyone?
Or - tongue firmly in cheek - are B0’s political ideas now not ‘an ax in the hands of those who attend power through them’?

And if I may say so - the Enlightenment was a pretty free market of ideas, in spite of the physical restrictions in the times of travelling by horsepower alone …

You’ve got a point, though really BO’s ax isn’t as sharp as any of the continental Europeans axes.
..and no I don’t think Enlightenment was a free market of ideas, ultimately it was about the loss of power of the church and nothing else. The ideas had been around for some 2 thousand years before, and yes ultimately in the french revolution they ended up to be a bloody ax, quite literally.
No offense, but GB really isn’t Europe, to me the Isles are the first attempt to remake European tribal crap into something better, with limited success.