Africa’s coup epidemic: Has democracy failed the continent?
In a majority of the 28 countries surveyed between 2021 and 2022 by Afrobarometer, researchers found that most people would welcome a military government.
“What we are seeing is the product of dysfunctional institutions and the fact...
I took great interest in @JustWondering 's post, "Americans have become ignorant pushovers".
We in the West have become accustomed to our democracy, equality and freedom of speech. Perhaps we tend to forget that this emerged from much blood and conflict. The U.S. and France had their...
Wyoming GOP voters are on the brink of ousting Liz Cheney for her outspoken criticism of Donald Trump
To explain Cheney’s predicament, it’s important to recognize that ordinary thinking about how democracy works begins with a mistaken premise.
We assume that voters first determine their...
This is why:
Despite no evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities impacting the 2020 election, nearly three-quarters of Republicans claim they still have doubts about the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s win over former President Donald Trump, according to a poll released this week by...
'Alexey Navalny has been arrested at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from an alleged nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.
The Kremlin critic’s detention on Sunday at passport control in Moscow’s...
After the Bloodiest Riots in Washington DC, driven by Republican ideas, shall the Government blacklist the entire Republican party? It was a long time to have a 2-party system in the USA. It is time to go over the 1-party system?
There was Paradise with Theocracy. And the
degradation started with the Original Sin:
the system became a monarchy, then democracy, then demonocracy (the rulership of not humans, but of the deep state, which consists of satan and his demons).
Russia has problems with democracy because there is...
Based on this post:
UK Elections
I had an idea. Seems like a few of us find flaws in our countries' election systems. Please post things you think are dumb in your country's system.
I'll start:
Israel:
Israeli elections are done in a way that any party can run, but to enter the knesset (Israeli...