Glenn Tifford raises a fundamental incompatibility: liberal democracies are premised on openness (the operating system of open societies), while Leninist systems are premised on information control, and this creates cognitive dissonance when trying to maintain openness with a system that weaponizes information.

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Glenn Tifford

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openness arises as a question is a challenge in one way or another um and it is largely the question is how can systems which are liberal Democratic at functioning civil societies are premised on varying degrees of openness whether we're talking about Europe or the United States or Japan Australia Korea these are democratic nations openness is integral to democracies

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China's Grand Strategy For Global Data Dominance | Hoover InstitutionHoover Institution
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:18:09 PM

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