#DEMOCRACY

Convict & Disqualify

Mgeotsa

Do term limits increase political polarization & reduce effectiveness? For 25+ yrs ideological & opportunistic divides worsened. McConnell reelected to 3rd Senate term, Graham 4th! Dems too. Reinstate modified term

Bioshock

BioshockLGP

Its fucking disgusting that instead of embracing a peaceful transfer of power, the entire GOP has embraced this nonsense narrative of voter fraud all over the country. Guess its too

Michael MacKay

mhmck

Russia is at war with Ukraine. A tactic of Russia’s invasion, especially in Luhansk and Donetsk in 2014, was to send mobs to seize public buildings. The mobs were indoctrinated

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

The president, wallowing in self-pity & delusion, has this morning spewed lies, sought again to undermine our democracy, and accused his opponents of treason. And it is deeply disturbing &

Stuart Lau

stuartklau

#Breaking Hong Kong police have arrested more than 50 pro-democracy politicians under the National Security Law. Some of them are detained on suspicion of subverting state power, for having taken

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

Obama gets it. (Because *of course* @BarackObama would get it.)'If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas

Roy Ngerng

royngerng

Very important point he's making. We are seeing the beginnings of how an authoritarian regime tries to use persecution to instill fear onto free-thinking people, and how this will eventually

Russell

RussellSieg

This is the narrative that sums up the last weeks/months of early voting in America. Russia & China don't have to interfere that much in our Election & Democracy when

Molly McKew

MollyMcKew

WARNING: Trumpworld — inclstars Bannon, Flynn’s lawyer, Papadapoulos, Bin Laden’s daughter — are alleging a secret NSA program designed by Obama has been used to “switch 3% of votes” None

AttorneyAtLaw

ZacMoselane

I've come to accept that calling South Africans Xenophobic is a gaslighting technique to take control of their country. A young democracy, with a lot solve is being forced to

Elad Gross 🇺🇸

BigElad

Missouri, while national politics is dominating our attention, a hidden dark money group is trying to buy our state government.Right to Work for Less is back.1/ The leader of the

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

The Coast Guard is blocking passage up the Potomac to Washington, D.C. This is a reminder that democracy won a battle but has not won the war. It was an

Katie Martin-Browne

ktfmb

To be super clear: capitulation to mob violence is the ultimate failure of democratic governance and the rule of law. 1/https://twitter.com/TimAlberta/status/1349389150622019584 Preventing extrajudicial coercion is THE POINT of a legal

Robert Hockett

rch371

1/7 Social Media 'Censorship': Reactionaries are now ironically exercised by (social) media oligopoly. Progressives, meanwhile, ironically crow that silencing by these oligopolies isn't 'state action' for 1A purposes. Th

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

I stupidly used to think the fascists could be shamed into realizing how far they've strayed from the democratic principles of our republic. But it turns out they like being

beka valentine

beka_valentine

as an anarchist, i'm morally opposed to standard "democratic" processes like representative "democracy", but i'm also opposed to things that are more standardly found in anarchist orgs to varying degrees

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