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Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." [2] Critics of democracy have often tried to highlight democracy's inconsistencies, paradoxes, and limits by contrasting it with other forms of government, such as epistocracy or lottocracy.
For much of the last four years, Democrats have warned Americans about the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. From the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to his phone call telling Georgia’s Secretary of ...
Jacob Grumbach published the State Democracy Index which evaluates states between 2000 and 2018 on the strength of their electoral democracy. While starting in 2002 and accelerating after the 2010 elections and redistricting, Grumbach finds American states under unified Republican Party control began significant backsliding, while Democratic ...
So when I see the right and the ability to do everything granted to whatever power, whether called people or king, democracy or aristocracy, whether exercised in a monarchy or a republic, I say: the seed of tyranny is there and I try to go and live under other laws.
“The bottom line is that democracy itself is broadly perceived as so broken that Trump’s deliberate effort to break it by an act of insurrection is being accepted by an alarming percentage of ...
A new threat to democracy has emerged in Georgia, writes Rachel Marshall, citing passage of a law that creates a commission weakening the independence of community-elected prosecutors.
Capitol Hill Citizen 's motto "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight" is intended as a jab at what Politico 's Ian Ward described as the Washington Post 's "self-important motto Democracy Dies in Darkness". [11] The slogan gained renewed attention following the Washington Post 's refusal to endorse a candidate in the 2024 United States presidential ...
It's not your average person, but it could be dangerous. Taken as a whole, many of the prevailing narratives about social media (e.g., filter bubbles, echo chambers, fake news, algorithmic ...