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John Ganz
lionel_trolling
Yeah well look a minority elected Trump, an obvious moron, and majorities rejected him twice. I think there's proof of concept right there. Not to mention there are very few
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Mrs.Isaacs.bellywash🇬🇾🌴❤💛💚✝️
BannaSpur
It's a sad revelation how PPPc and supporters use the term "Democracy" to suit their own convenience.https://twitter.com/TheGuyanaBook/status/1275542547025321991 So make me to understand, for 23 yrs, PPPc governed 592, and bet
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Tommy
IYeRSvm6D3OeG8T
1. So why does America promote the idea of democracy in China? Americans believe that democracies are essentially better than autocracies because they provide freedom to individuals. This freedom in
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Sean
_Sean_________
I sometimes hear PR campaigners concede that somehow first past the post would be a fair system in cases where the "winning" party got more than 50% of the vote
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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
New study about country founded on ideas of democracy and the practice of slavery: "When intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy."https://www.nbcnews.com/t
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Samuel Moyn 🔭
samuelmoyn
1/ There is a difference between due caution or salutary fear, on the one hand, and self-confirming and -fulfilling paranoia, on the other. Whether we stray from one to the
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blackgirlnoname
Me for all the people that I said Trump can't be that bad, checks and balances. We are under the illusion this is still a functional democracy Also me to
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Robert Saunders
redhistorian
A key point that gets missed in some of the cruder takes on the "Red Wall". Tory success here may owe less to a new electoral phenomenon than an old
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Adam Jentleson 🎈
AJentleson
This is a Copernican moment. Democrats are realizing the old ways no longer apply. Our democracy has tilted to minority rule by white conservatives who are imposing their will on
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Melanee Thomas
MelaneeLThomas
Who's going to tell the premier that being open-minded and responsive to public feedback, even when negative, is also the work of democracy? Or that working democracy does NOT =
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David Frum
davidfrum
Arrived at last ! I'll be talking by webcast about Trumpocalypse book under the sponsorshop of @PoliticsProse May 27. Tickets here (includes price of book) https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/pp-live-david-frum-trumpocalypse-resto
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David Roberts
drvolts
I can't think of a more paradigmatic example of motivated reasoning that the right deciding that the glib phrase "republic not a democracy" justifies wildly disproportionate political representation for rural
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Steve Schmidt
SteveSchmidtSES
Paul Ryan is on the board of Fox Corp. There is no entity in the United States that has done more damage with regard to what he decries than Fox
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Garry Kasparov
Kasparov63
Stupid headlines like this in the free world, and the thinking behind them, are why dictators like Lukashenko still bother with 'democracy theater'. Don't use the vocabulary of democracy for
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Ben Burgis
BenBurgis
I don't know that I'd describe *any* of my positions as my being "so certain" but I do believe that it's the case given the experience of actually existing planned
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Teri Kanefield
Teri_Kanefield
There is an easy and productive way to get out of the outrage loop: Get busy doing your part to save democracy.I just happen to have a list here (recently
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