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| Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Sep 18 03:41PM -0700 On 9/15/2020 6:21 PM, The Real Bev wrote: > only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote > themselves largess out of the public treasury." > -- Alexander Tyler (Unverified) "The last half of the 20th century was the golden age of democracy. In 1945, according to one survey, there were just 12 democracies in the entire world. By the end of the century there were 87. But then came the great reversal: In the second decade of the 21st century, the shift to democracy rather suddenly and ominously stopped—and reversed. Right-wing populist politicians have taken power or threatened to in Poland, Hungary, France, Britain, Italy, Brazil and the United States. As Rosenberg notes, "by some metrics, the right wing populist share of the popular vote in Europe overall has more than tripled from 4% in 1998 to approximately 13% in 2018." In Germany, the right-wing populist vote increased even after the end of the Great Recession and after an influx of immigrants entering the country subsided. A brief three decades after some had heralded the "end of history" it's possible that it's democracy that's nearing the end. And it's not just populist rabble-rousers who are saying this. So is one of the establishment's pioneer social scientists, who's daring to actually predict the end of democracy as we know it." ...... Read the rest https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/08/shawn-rosenberg-democracy-228045 |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Sep 18 07:32PM -0700 On 09/18/2020 02:37 PM, Edward Jackson wrote: >> get normal size roll-up keyboards... >> That's all I got :-( > You're still with us! I thought the plague got you. Or maybe Facebook. I still read ALL the groups I subscribed to, but there's not much activity. I've made facebook as much like usenet as possible, but it's not even a distant second in goodness. -- Cheers, Bev Guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat. |
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