What according to lease was radically wrong in the affairs of the nation?

According to Lease, the radically wrong thing was that the will of the people was completely being neglected, which meant that the democratic process upon which everything was based was also being neglected and this needed to change if things were to change for the better. If the idea around building a successful country with freedom as its highest priority doesn't take into account the will of the people and is not democratic, then it cannot claim to be democratic at all and that's what Lease believed was radically wrong.

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