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>>22047917
I think you're just plainly wrong about this. It is so patently obvious that the more educated and cosmopolitan that a population becomes the more liberal they become. It might be harder to consider if you're already from the West but those of us from underdeveloped countries and struggling cultures can see how easily our populations become liberalized the moment you introduce technology like the Internet and urban economic development. These growing liberal tendencies are evident all around the world in the youth who follow the exact same mass culture that spreads to them through social media. Countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE are becoming liberalized with unfathomable ease, all it took was some propaganda campaigns and introduction of Western consumerism.

The only discrepancy with Fukuyama's argument is the democratic component. People are absolutely going to become liberalized once their country develops, it's an observable fact, you can see it in every country. But that doesn't mean they will support democracy. You don't need democracy to be liberal and you don't need liberalism to be democratic. Democracy is the one thing that will undoubtedly lose favor in the 21st century because it was never popular throughout history anyways.