democrazy

This might be early, but I have time right now and we can revisit this next year. It seems to me that American moderates are beginning to panic about what re-electing Donald Trump would mean. But their suggestion is for Democrats to run a moderate candidate, which didn't work the last time. If...

And conversely, what most people think is bad is bad. I've recently seen this sentiment expressed here on this forum, but it's a pretty common one, and we all probably lean on it at some point. It's much easier to push your point when you can claim that you have majority backing - it cuts down...

In a previous thread, I posed a question about alternatives to democracy, but ultimately the discussion wasn't able to move beyond assertions that democracy tends to make society better or rhetorical questions about what could be better than democracy. So let's re-examine the topic from a...