democracy issues

Salon (original article from Alternet): ALEC’s scary plan for electing your senators The Nation: ALEC Is Talking About Changing the Way Senators Are Elected and Taking Away Your Vote While I can't see a repeal of the 17th Amendment getting ratified, I didn't think Trump could get elected...

Yesterday in Berlin, there was an event to start DiEM25, the "Democracy in Europe Movement ... 2025". Varoufakis is the head honcho seen in their video ad (with music by Brian Eno who is on board) jogging into the future: VJyju_tHS8k Motto: "The European Union will be democratized. Or it will...

It's obvious that, in America at this point, the rich and the corporations and their finances are what really matter to American politicians: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/10/05/141090844/millionaire-surtax-called-desperate-by-conservatives-sensible-by-liberals Republicans don't...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15045816 Am i the only one bothered by these pathetic 'elections'? Everything affiliated with politics is fake in Russia.

Can a country with institutionalized slavery be a democracy? Can a country that only allows one sex to vote be a democracy? Can a country that only allows one political party be a democracy? Can a country with an unelected Supreme Leader be a democracy? Can a country where the fairness of...

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=6872642#post6872642 In the above post, someone claimed that Fidel Castro was democratically elected to rule Cuba. Any truth to this claim?

Mods: I'm putting this here because I believe this is a more general topic than "Should USA citizens vote?" If you disagree, please move it. In a discussion about Starship Troopers (surprise surprise :D ) we got into the topic of whether or not people should vote, and what the best situation...

I'm out of town and I forgot to get an absentee ballot.

If it's your goal to always act rationally and use your time and energy sensibly and purposefully you shouldn't vote. The only justified reason to vote is to make some difference, however small. But the only real way that your voting will cause any difference whatsoever is if the election is so...

Everytime an election is coming up I'm noticing that a lot of people seem to be voting without having given much thought to any of the big issues, and even without really knowing what the party/candidate they're voting for stands for. That can't be a good thing for society, so I'm wondering if...

How to make the United States of America a Democracy. by David Rice (Desertphile) I WOULD LIKE to see Democratic Communism tried, since it is (of course) the best and most just economic system yet thought of. The reason the world has never seen a Communist country is obvious: too large of a...

For example Iraq. Can democracy control the religious rivals or would the country be doomed to faliure. Even in the States theres a contstant fight to keep Christians at bay. If they were to take control ofthe govt they woudl turn the place to a religious state. Is there any zealot filled...

Much is made of the fact that more people live under democracy than under tyranny for the first time in history. A quick glance around, however, demonstrates that most people, are want of a better term, just too dumb to exercise their votes wisely. I don't mena in the partisan sense (e.g...