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  • Is Liberal Democracy Dying?

    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 10 14:24:12 2022
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/opinion/italy-meloni-democracy-authoritarianism.html
    "Last weekend, voters in Italy handed the reins of government to a coalition led by a party directly descended from Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship, delivering one of the biggest victories to the far right in Europe since World War II. “Today
    is a sad day for Italy,” said the leader of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party, who during the campaign had cast the contest as nothing less than a fight to save the country’s democracy.

    If such language sounds familiar to American ears, it’s because countries around the world, including the United States, are confronting what experts say is a worldwide wave of democratic backsliding. According to data from V-Dem, a monitoring
    institute based in Sweden — where, as it happens, a far-right party with roots in neo-Nazism made a strong electoral showing two weeks ago — more democracies were deteriorating, and even slipping into autocracy, in 2021 than at any point in the past
    50 years.

    What explains the global resurgence of authoritarian politics, and what does it portend for the future of democracy? Here’s what people are saying."

    People saying a lot things. The 'WHY' is one of the following:
    Choose one of the following:
    a. Liberal democracy is not real democracy
    b. Democracy is a bad system.

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  • From stoney@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 12 20:10:07 2022
    On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 5:24:14 AM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/opinion/italy-meloni-democracy-authoritarianism.html
    "Last weekend, voters in Italy handed the reins of government to a coalition led by a party directly descended from Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship, delivering one of the biggest victories to the far right in Europe since World War II. “
    Today is a sad day for Italy,” said the leader of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party, who during the campaign had cast the contest as nothing less than a fight to save the country’s democracy.

    If such language sounds familiar to American ears, it’s because countries around the world, including the United States, are confronting what experts say is a worldwide wave of democratic backsliding. According to data from V-Dem, a monitoring
    institute based in Sweden — where, as it happens, a far-right party with roots in neo-Nazism made a strong electoral showing two weeks ago — more democracies were deteriorating, and even slipping into autocracy, in 2021 than at any point in the past
    50 years.

    What explains the global resurgence of authoritarian politics, and what does it portend for the future of democracy? Here’s what people are saying."

    People saying a lot things. The 'WHY' is one of the following:
    Choose one of the following:
    a. Liberal democracy is not real democracy
    b. Democracy is a bad system.

    Democracy is indeed a bad system as otherwise there won't be so many problems affecting the lives of millions of people in their country. There is a need create a new word for it.

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  • From wog wacker@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 13 01:42:38 2022
    On Monday, October 10, 2022 at 9:24:14 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/opinion/italy-meloni-democracy-authoritarianism.html
    "Last weekend, voters in Italy handed the reins of government to a coalition led by a party directly descended from Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship, delivering one of the biggest victories to the far right in Europe since World War II. “
    Today is a sad day for Italy,” said the leader of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party, who during the campaign had cast the contest as nothing less than a fight to save the country’s democracy.

    If such language sounds familiar to American ears, it’s because countries around the world, including the United States, are confronting what experts say is a worldwide wave of democratic backsliding. According to data from V-Dem, a monitoring
    institute based in Sweden — where, as it happens, a far-right party with roots in neo-Nazism made a strong electoral showing two weeks ago — more democracies were deteriorating, and even slipping into autocracy, in 2021 than at any point in the past
    50 years.

    What explains the global resurgence of authoritarian politics, and what does it portend for the future of democracy? Here’s what people are saying."

    People saying a lot things. The 'WHY' is one of the following:
    Choose one of the following:
    a. Liberal democracy is not real democracy
    b. Democracy is a bad system.

    To answer the question, all you have to do is to look at senile, old Joe Biden.

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to wog wacker on Thu Oct 13 03:25:18 2022
    On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 8:42:40 AM UTC, wog wacker wrote:
    On Monday, October 10, 2022 at 9:24:14 PM UTC, ltlee1 wrote:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/opinion/italy-meloni-democracy-authoritarianism.html
    "Last weekend, voters in Italy handed the reins of government to a coalition led by a party directly descended from Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship, delivering one of the biggest victories to the far right in Europe since World War II. “
    Today is a sad day for Italy,” said the leader of Italy’s center-left Democratic Party, who during the campaign had cast the contest as nothing less than a fight to save the country’s democracy.

    If such language sounds familiar to American ears, it’s because countries around the world, including the United States, are confronting what experts say is a worldwide wave of democratic backsliding. According to data from V-Dem, a monitoring
    institute based in Sweden — where, as it happens, a far-right party with roots in neo-Nazism made a strong electoral showing two weeks ago — more democracies were deteriorating, and even slipping into autocracy, in 2021 than at any point in the past
    50 years.

    What explains the global resurgence of authoritarian politics, and what does it portend for the future of democracy? Here’s what people are saying."

    People saying a lot things. The 'WHY' is one of the following:
    Choose one of the following:
    a. Liberal democracy is not real democracy
    b. Democracy is a bad system.
    To answer the question, all you have to do is to look at senile, old Joe Biden.

    OK. Many will agree that Joe Biden is now senile.
    But Joe Biden was definitely not senile 30, 20, or 10 years ago.
    He wanted to be the US president when he was younger.
    And he achieves his goal.

    What about liberal democracy? What is it supposed to achieve as a system?
    Has it achieved what its designers and supporters want it to achieve?

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 17 04:52:32 2022
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