#Democracy

No one warned the public that Russians were in a position to alter vote tallies & that the DHS was not in a position to monitor most county election systems.
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Perceiving the kingdom of God as an actual political reality is a game changer. Once you see that Jesus has his own political agenda, his own vision for arranging human
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(1) How should TV news cover a president who makes existential threats to democracy as a habit without paralyzing the agency of voters and without giving in to the obvious
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0/10 In my book "Rigged," I unearth the history of covert electoral interference, and I argue that the lessons of the past can and must be used to protect our
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Time for a history lesson Past Presidents, despite their flaws, have largely understood the importance of a peaceful transfer of power to the survival of our democracy. THREAD
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A fair model for what's happening now is the "Strategy of Tension" in Italy in the '60s and '70s. Police used the far Right to attack the struggle, killing people
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In 1955, the APA was seeking a Rockefeller Foundation grant to support projects with “direct social implications.” Harvard philosopher Van Quine was asked to advise the APA:Would projects on “Philosophical
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Libs prefer fascism to socialism because they'd rather undemocratize governance than democratize the economy Makes sense; we interact with an undemocratic economy far more than we do with democratic governing,
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Every healthy democracy in the world imposes checks & balances on the exercise of power. Those checks may be constitutional, legal, conventional or merely ethical, but they're crucial if democracy
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My former boss—Robert S. Taylor, who served as Acting General Counsel at Department of Defense—with a strong warning to federal employees across departments and agencies.Two federal laws that could punish
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It is easy to single out Chang for this nonsense, but his views are largely derivative of the geriatric hard right in SK. These people are largely distrustful of democracy
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1) BREAKING: DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE POLL SHOWS TRUMP LEADING NATIONALLY, IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES, AND ELECTORAL COLLEGENATIONAL (Trump +1)Trump 46Biden 456 BATTLEGROUNDS of FL, IA, MI, MN, PA, WI (Trump +4)Trump
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Basically nobody in liberal circles is taking seriously the consequences of the fact that the exiled cadre of the Republican Party are building a massive power base in the Democratic
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1. Cummings wants to abolish House of Lords. 2. Cummings gives peerages to people that will infuriate Remainers.3. Remainers call for House of Lords to be abolished.4. Cummings chuckles to
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Below is a graph of the inward tweets to five British journalists, @piersmorgan @bbclaurak @peston @adamboultonSKY @BethRigby on the "media scum" hashtag yesterday. Between 3 and 5pm UTC, just five
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This is your brain on presentism. This is your brain on ahistoricism.Because voters in 2008/2012/2016 didn't have a choice about neoliberalism in recent elections, that means they never had a
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