Americans want the right to vote and participate in democracy, but are generally unwilling to take the responsibility to be informed. They won't simply follow in their parents' footsteps of getting riled up by conspiracy theories on faceboot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanawha_County_textbook_contro... http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pag... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvUzdJSK4x8, https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~michor/leray.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_people. For example, with police serving warrants- maybe you limit it to waking hours, except for hostage situations or some immediate emergency.
So you are in opposition to even the simplest provable fact provided in the article.
It begun with Nazism and pedophilia advocacy but already includes Corona "misinformation", r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, Hamas' Twitter account, WikiLeaks, Mila Yanniopolis, and a whole host of stuff I just don't know about because some powerful fucks decided it was too dangerous for me (please don't read so much into my examples - these are the ones I know about. So, most people are not doing anything.". Facing an enormous and chronic state budget shortfall, she breezily suggested that her tax cut might be paid for by eliminating a recently enacted state sales-tax exemption for food purchases, because the exemption “didn’t create one job.” This statement, which seems to imply that eating is an economically useless activity, takes conservative disdain for consumption as a growth generator to new heights.
the system needs to encourage mobility and allow for potential maximization. Apply the fixes recommended by SCOTUS in Citizens United. If someone accepts the premise then they should also accept the conclusion. I think it's more that it's easier to agree on things as a conservative.
It's worth noting that after taking power, one of Mao's highest priorities was raising the literacy rate.
The last few months of 2010 have been illuminating when it comes to the priorities of the Republican Party. The man to be set up would be the reachable man, the city, town or village dweller who had an income 2.1 times greater than that of the average in his county, who owned 1.7 long coats, and who shared one newspaper with 6.8 neighbors.
Including social media. He had succeeded in hiding from the Germans the fact that he was a leading expert in fluid dynamics and mechanics (a mécanicien, as he liked to say). On the other hand, if you start at 25 and increase the setting by 1, you should experience an increased energy usage.
(Incoming Republican Governor Nathan Deal is expected to embrace the report.) Spending hours per day following and discussing politics for emotional and intellectual reasons, instead of power-seeking organized action destroys democracy. democratic procedures, then it is not a stretch to interpret the governing style of Trump, Erdogan, etc., as a relapse behind historical achievements—and thus as “regression.” Prerequisites of a Theory of Regression But it’s not that simple—especially if the term “regression” should mean something While science is more rigorous, it is easier to build consensus, and it can be done with minimal human contact. World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires resulted in the creation of new nation-states from Europe, most of them at least nominally democratic. Only the profoundly ignorant are supporting these wannabe autocrats. There's a non-benedictine abbey near me which celebrated its 1'500th birthday a while ago, and at least a handful of benedictine which are probably not many centuries younger. “Regression” is then a processual concept: aimed at identifying deficits or dislocations in crisis-prone, problem-solving processes. The Bush administration lied us into a war, and then in 2008 we bailed out the banking interests that created the crisis while leaving the actual economy to rot. Of course, by extension, the larger your hiring pool, the less pressure there is to increase wages. > People have started consume politics as an entertainment.
Yep, the government is very slow to change, by design. The founding fathers debated these just as strongly as we do today, on all aspects of every point I raised above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise. Just like more coverage of murders and crime on the evening news makes us think that crime has gone up, greater coverage of so-called illiberal events makes us think that democracy is in danger. The transition of a country from non-democratic to single party democracy to multi-party democracy can be tracked reasonably well.
Dreher's Benedict Option seems like a Western perspective of a similar strategy.
For a true litmus test of the lengths Republicans will and will not go to in order defend the incomes of the very rich, you have to look to the states, where budget deficits are generally not allowed. They see it as a choice between "the puppet on the left" and "the puppet on the right.". The things people talk about and get emotional about are the things that sway elections, and therefore these are the topics politicians focus on.
Democratic regression measured by the methodology of one NGO - the Freedom House and the Economist. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/kansas-should-go-f-itself. My money and politics teacher @ CMU - John Delano said something that has always stuck with me when in doubt about motivations - “in politics, follow the money”. 1. A similar thing is happening next door in Georgia, where outgoing Republican Governor Sonny Perdue created a heavily loaded fiscal commission tasked with addressing the state’s massive budget gap. As ever, to paraphrase Dick Cheney, Republicans seem to think deficits don’t matter. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> What Mugabe has done to his country is one of the most grotesque acts of misgovernance ever.
I'm not so sure about that. Just yesterday, Leila Khaled was supposed to participate in an discussion panel online sponsored by an American university.
And so on. The Nazis and Russians made the best propaganda against each other when they got down to the basic necessities of life, not when they were trying to weave finespun theories about each other's way of thinking or of life.". But I suppose, if I were around at the nation's founding, I would have been a Federalist. Democratic system IMO is more fragile when the gap is widen.
and "Definition of the Enemy." Citizens get to vote on how their tax dollars are spent. The fact that there is any question at all about the outcome of this election shows just how pathetic the Democrats are at connecting with the electorate. Sorry, if this is out of context for the main topic, but these keep bugging me. Why is it that it's fair for a minority to decide who gets to be leader? There are two important recessions going on in the world today. I suspect you actually don't, due to the underlying complexity and ineffable, counterintuitive nature of the subject matter. They are incentivized to say - Democracy is in Danger - for it raises more dollars. Professional training aimed at PhD students and early career scholars, providing the essential skills and advice needed to establish a successful career. > Only the profoundly ignorant are supporting these wannabe autocrats. When you put it before the voters as America's relevance to the international order versus their houses, jobs, and communities, they're gonna choose the latter. It's not a democracy, it's not a republic. Is it enough to not have a monarchy? It’s called “the democratic recession,” and if it isn’t reversed, it will change the world for a long time. This was abolished, in addition to many responsibilities of the senate - oversight of the executive, a leading voice in international relations - have been ceded to the executive branch.
At the same time, it's important to not get complacent, because the further the government goes down a path you don't like, the harder it gets to turn it around.
I'm not sure why you're getting down voted; this is an accurate comment on the condition of things, especially about the media literacy. But if we break down big problems into small problems that people can understand, we can slowly make progress.
This is what Americans got when they voted for the Tea Party. Everyone suffers from it to varying degrees (the specifics of which are not known, despite the patterns that appear to be there), but it is near impossible to perceive in oneself for many interesting reasons, including some possibly significant ones which have been observed but have not yet gotten much attention in the scientific community (who does not know what it does not know, something which may only be perceivable in certain states of mind). The amount of competing legal, administrative, and regulatory obligations alone in what can be one policy is way more complex than code. Now to the point about the constitutional issues.