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A critique arguing that liberal democracy, despite its ideals, can produce its own forms of oppression: endless elections that exhaust participation, a political class that rotates while policies stay the same, and rights that are formally guaranteed but materially inaccessible. It is the tyranny of procedure over substance, of representation without accountability, of freedom to choose between indistinguishable options. Citizens feel ruled by a system they cannot change, even as they are told they are free.
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