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US President Nixon believed that France…

January 5, 2022Weirdo

US President Nixon believed that France, Italy and Latin America are too immature for democracy and should instead be ruled by authoritarian regimes.

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Founded by the Great Peacemaker in 1142…

January 6, 2021Weirdo

Founded by the Great Peacemaker in 1142, the Iroquois Confederacy is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. The US constitution was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy.

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Faced with a choice between democracy…

June 6, 2020Weirdo

Faced with a choice between democracy and the interests of their political party, Americans will chose party over democracy.

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The notion of an “objective” media…

March 2, 2020Weirdo

The notion of an “objective” media was a commercial product that only evolved in the late 1800s as newspapers shifted from partisan to nonpartisan in order to attract larger audiences from both parties and to sell these readers’ attention to advertisers.

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Democracy and demon came from…

July 26, 2019July 26, 2019Weirdo

Democracy and demon came from the same Greek root: ‘dā mo’ is the distance between different types of people, both ‘citizens’ (‘demos’) and Gods and humans (‘dai-mon’ meaning ‘divider’).

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African buffalo herds display “voting behavior” to indicate their…

December 5, 2015Weirdo

African buffalo herds display “voting behavior” to indicate their travel preferences by standing up, staring in one direction and then lying back down. Only adult females vote.

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In Classical Athens, the citizens could vote each year to banish…

October 16, 2015Weirdo

In Classical Athens, the citizens could vote each year to banish any person who was growing too powerful, as a threat to democracy. This process was called Ostracism.

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The official twitter account for Sweden …

January 16, 2012Weirdo

The official twitter account for Sweden is run by a different citizen every week.

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The CIA and MI6 helped overthrow the dem …

December 12, 2011Weirdo

The CIA and MI6 helped overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister and replaced him with an authoritarian monarch for control of oil.

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