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At the heart of his critique were how democracy failed "in the search for truth" and how leaders and citizens attempted "to impose their own speech-dependent meanings on reality". [10] Thucydides blamed " public orators " and demagogues for a failure of epistemic knowledge , allowing most Athenians to "believe silly things about their past and ...
Democracy: The God That Failed is a 2001 book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe containing thirteen essays on democracy. Passages in the book oppose universal suffrage and favor "natural elites". [1] The book helped popularize Hoppe in far-right discourse. [1] [2] Hoppe is a German-born economist who was a professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
“Liberal democracy will not make a comeback unless people are willing to struggle on its behalf. The problem is that many who grow up living in peaceful, prosperous liberal democracies begin to ...
Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
If we don't fix American democracy, Trump, Putin and Xi could be proved right: Autocracy is better.
Vanderbilt professor Dana D. Nelson in Bad for Democracy argues that all citizens seem to do, politically, is vote for president every four years, and not much else; they've abandoned politics. [28] Apathy was lower in the 2008 election, which featured a competitive election for president. [29] Voter turnout in 2008 (62%) was the highest since ...
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 ...