Helena Rosenblatt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And they start to ask why.
And they start thinking, well, guess what?
German soldiers are vaccinated.
They're much healthier.
Their railroads work.
Exactly.
And this catches on.
Again, it's because of, you know.
Exactly.
And that's an interesting twist that sometimes the influences on liberalism are not necessarily from within.
The first Napoleon is what made people like Benjamin Constant, the early liberals, say, like, we need something so that this never happens again.
We need constitutions that stop somebody like Napoleon from.
A demagogue, a dictator from coming to power.
And then now it's Bismarck.
But look at his policies.
Look what he's doing to the population.
They're healthier.
They're stronger.
They're more patriotic.
This is really when there was what came to be called a new liberalism.