Category Archives: Democracy

Limitations of Direct Democracy

The following discussion clip is from the Occupy Wall Street demand discussion list. Here is the lead in post from flavian: It’s not direct democracy if a majority dictates for a minority. And some times it’s not even a majority. … Continue reading

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Making Direct Democracy Work

The following discussion clip is from the Occupy Wall Street demand discussion list. Here is the lead in post from DAN1: Hi “EvanFromHeaven”. Ol Dan here. Looks like the suggestion to put Direct Democracy on the Occupy Wall Street list … Continue reading

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A nation of fearless, bumbling morons

The Economist Democracy in America Blog had an article and discussion on the topic “A nation of fearless, bumbling morons”. http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/01/getting_tough?page=2#comment-802532 In short, the discussion was asking whether people in the U.S. have become WUSSES, based on a recent canceling of a … Continue reading

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Dennis Meadows Video Limits to Growth

Dennis talks about the impending social collapse – Dennis Meadows Video

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Wikileaks is trying to wake us up!

The following is a post I made to the Linked in group Innovation Democracy. In a previous post, I stated the the basic form of democracy hasn’t changed much since ancient Greece. A number of people replied that they thought … Continue reading

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