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Category Archives: Democracy
Prior To The Recent Supreme Court Ruling On Presidential Immunity, The Presidency Already Had All The Foreign Policy Power Of King George III
Holly Brewer writes for The New Republic July 1, 2024: The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law. Five members … Continue reading
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Republic vs Democracy
Firefighter John Aldieri posts: “By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. Although … Continue reading
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The Ideology of Democratism
Emily B. Finley writes in this 2022 book: * democratism is a hypothetical or ideal conception of democracy that is only tenuously connected to the actual, historical desires of real popular majorities. * Democratism can perhaps best be summed up … Continue reading
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Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts (4-5-22)
From the 2003 book by Stephen Turner, Liberal Democracy 3.0: Civil Society in an Age of Experts: * In Liberal Democracy 3.0, the slow transformation is from a politics of sovereign citizens to a politics of diffused experts, in which … Continue reading
The information tsunami that rolled over the elites
Martin Gurri writes: The mass movements that challenged democracy in the last century were erected on Taylorist principles. All appealed to science. All were controlled like machines from the top by a “vanguard” who represented the future. At the same … Continue reading
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