democracy

As an initial interim "definition", I'm just going to direct you to three of my posts: 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/05/in-defence-of-democracy.html; 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/12/democracy-needs-human-rights.html; and 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-hierarchy-of-needs-for-nations.html.
  

Some additional links: 

• “Dem_dec: Democratic Decay & Renewal - Bringing Democracy Defenders Together”   https://www.democratic-decay.org/  
  

• “Can Social Media Activism Actually Work? - PBS Voices”   https://youtu.be/0IkQ-AxJb8A?si=dG_cJ1dev7lSr37E   Yes, is the answer - if it is done correctly      

• “(efficacy of) nonviolent protests”   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/04/efficacy-of-nonviolent-protests.html   including links to   “Post No. 1,614 - How Large Do Movements Have to Be to Succeed?”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2020/07/post-no-1614-how-large-do-movements.html   and   “Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action”   https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/index.php/   “The Global Nonviolent Action Database provides free access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action, from all continents and most countries, for learning and for citizen action. The database is a project of Swarthmore College”   and https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/browse   &   https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/search/node?keys=  

• “Freedom House”   https://freedomhouse.org/   

• “Bertelsmann Transformation Index”   https://bti-project.org/en/   “analyses transformation processes toward democracy and a market economy in international comparison and identifies successful strategies for peaceful change”   
  

• “The president we need”   https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-nomination-of-kamala-harris-for     

And as warnings: 

• “The Strongman Fantasy - by Timothy Snyder”   https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy   This is excellent writing making points of great importance: I consider it should be widely read    

• “How Trump is Following H*tl*r's Playbook | Robert Reich”   https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?si=WB-a9MGyJPusORp5  

• “What Aristotle Knew About Oligarchy That We Forgot”   https://youtu.be/HMguSl8PHS4     
  

 

 

 

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