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The downfall of democracy is never a foregone conclusion. Serendipity can come to democracy’s rescue: a demagogue suddenly dies, an earthquake happens, a bank collapses, there’s defeat in war; things can always go in more than one direction. To paraphrase Marx, democide happens because it ...
The book answers the question of: How D dies? There's a national crisis that shakes public's trust in the established parties. The autocrat-in-the-making, usually a populist outsider, takes advantage of opportunity to seize power. He has two approaches: 1) launch a coup; 2) lobby the ...
if I just pray, well, we’ll be end up with something that’s at least 60% or maybe 70% effective, and then it turns out to be 95%.So this does seem like, OK, I’ve been praying for rescue from COVID. Here’s the answer. It’s coming through ...
(and a little more). But in a state where the national government says we want to spend X and then can’t spend X, there is no democracy. It lacks monetary sovereignty, it lacks access to money, which is needed for government spending. And this money comes from the central bank, ...
The interviewee is aware that “we also have to accept a certain amount of restrictions”. Still, he believes that the Ultranet line and wind energy projects threaten to undermine democracy in the region, limiting fundamental rights of citizens. He sees the energy projects driven by legislative ...
13 How (not) to Argue For Moral Enhancement: Reflections on a Decade of Debate 103 4.3 Moral Bioenhancement and Democratic Legitimacy This leads us to a general worry about the compatibil- ity of the moral bioenhancement project with democracy. Freedom of opinion, we ...
Clearly democracy and freedom itself isan illusion. There is room for popular choice but the Illuminati manipulates the process to produce the desired outcome. Ultimately it serves to legitimize illegitimate power. Wars are orchestrated to eventually produce Illuminati world government. As the Masonic ...
you probably have Ford right up there, and then you have Coca-Cola at the very top. So the former Nazi boxer gets to sell Coca-Cola, becomes immensely rich, dies at a very ripe, old age — whereas the proponent of democracy, American pluralism, and apple pie dies poor, unhealthy, and...
He’s also pledged to donate his fortune to charity before he dies. 6. George Soros George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire investor and he also has a philanthropic organization called the Open Society Foundations. It supports democracy and human rights in more than 100 countries. He’...