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 ...
Sadurski, Wojciech (2018): How Democracy Dies (in Poland): A Case Study of Anti- Constitutional Populist Backsliding, verfugbar unter: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3103491. [16.08.2018].Sadurski W (2018a) How democracy dies (in Poland): a case study of anti-...
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 ...
And if these mainstream Christians wake up to the deception of the “pandemic” — and their own churches’ roles in promoting it — why aren’t they also questioning their pastors’ interpretation of the Scriptures — which they twisted to deceive them? If Chri...
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 ...
(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, ...
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...
Politicians, especially in a democracy, never admit a mistake. Their reaction when confronted is to increase whatever mistake they were caught making. To show how much faith they have in themselves. And to punish you for attempting to harm them. ...
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 ...
Fortunately with America, our propaganda is on firm ground. We can be entirely sincere, as our main plank will be the old Democratic one. We must clearly enunciate our belief in the old Democratic form of Government and our firm resolve to adhere to the old ‘Goddess of Democracy’ routine...