SA yet another example of how wrong liberal universalists were that you could superimpose a Western-style liberal democratic framework on any country and out the other side would come rainbows and unicorns. Failure must now be blamed on anything but Pretorian mass democracy.
https://twitter.com/RussLamberti/status/1412381668246179841
The bet was that SA's immense social complexity could be mediated by a centralised democratic order with theoretical 'democratic institutions' and 'checks and balances' without those things properly existing in real life. Something like a Cargo Cult order - form without function.
Liberals of all stripes won't admit it, but South Africa has failed in virtually exactly the way and for the very reasons that conservatives predicted it would - corruption, incompetence, and using the state as a means of imposing cultural dominance through crude majoritarianism.
Also not readily admitted by the True Believers is that South Africa reveals the profound weakness of abstract rationalism in the making of a political order. That's why the establishment gets apoplectic at conservative critique - it's absolutely devastating to their worldview.
As a result, the establishment can only bear to critique from the liberal democratic frame: it wasn't implemented properly; the commies took over; Zupta wot dunnit; whites blocking nation-building; vote better etc.
Go outside the frame for answers, and you must be cancelled.
Go outside the frame for answers, and you must be cancelled.
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