America is a Democracy? Really?Dave Lindorff
However, over the years, America has gained the title as a democratic nation and the status quo of America being considered “the majority rule.” The present state of affairs of the American government proves to be incorrect because the United States is not a democracy. The United States ...
One thing I keep seeing all over the place during this government shutdown is how America’s “democracy” is at risk.Thomas Friedman penned a piecethe other day claiming this. Now, I don’t know if Friedman’s overall argument is right. It’s certainly alarming that our political parties...
BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The United States always loves to brand itself as the "beacon of democracy," but it is increasingly difficult for the American people to achieve their own interests. Democratic politics should meet the people's aspirations for a better life, and true democracy m...
Representative democracy has been broken for the past decade in places like Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida. When Republican lawmakers redistricted these states after the 2010 census, with the benefit of precise, granular voting data and the most sophisticated mappi...
A democracy is a form of government where every person has a voice. This could be by representation or directly. Is the United States a democracy or a republic? The United States of America is defined as a constitutional republic. Read more(2025) State of Democracy in the United States Con...
“Democratic institutions are devices for reconciling social order with individual freedom and initiative, and for making the immediate power of a country’s rulers subject to the ultimate power of the ruled. The fact that, in Western Europe and America, these devices have worked, all things con...
Most importantly, what legal or legislative mechanisms should be created to prevent the democracy from becoming a victim of what one of America’sFounding Fathers,James Madison, called “the tyranny of the majority?” Finally, how likely is it that a majority of the people will continue to bel...
Representative democracy (also known as indirect democracy) is a type of democracy that involves the citizens of a particular country voting on representatives who write and vote on laws in a legislative assembly. Representative democracy, in one form or another, is found in the vast majority of...
The process of modernization in the West was violent. It relied on colonialism, slavery, war, plunder, and domination. The same processes that made Europe and North America rich also contributed to the impoverishment of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific. ...