University teaching could explain why democracy is ‘backsliding’

There is a global gap in university education that explains how democracies are “backsliding” into dictatorships (“Democracy may be backsliding, says O’Neil”). Federal funding of university social sciences should be reduced by the degree to which their research and teaching is limited to making hierarchical command and control dictatorships more effective.

Our future leaders can only obtain an education on undermining democracies. To “inoculate democracy”, as proposed by Ms O’Neil, would require universities to radically change their social science research and teaching. Social scientists would need to learn how to adapt the knowledge of natural scientists who understand how all living things become self-regulating and self-governing without markets or states.