Sentences with phrase «care about democracy»

Why can't those MPs just be honest and admit they don't care about democracy and only want changes which are to their advantage?
«The high rate of spoiled ballots and lower turnout in elections fought under AV should trigger an alarm to those in the Labour movement who care about democracy,» she said.
«If Eliot Spitzer cared about democracy, he would participate in the city's campaign - finance program and not use his personal fortune to try and buy this election wholesale.»
Obama himself challenged Republicans to offer a plausible rationale for refusing to consider a replacement for Scalia, and he pledged to nominate someone with an «outstanding legal mind» who cares about democracy and the rule of law.
«If Eliot Spitzer cared about democracy, he would participate in the city's campaign finance program and not use his personal fortune to try and buy this election wholesale,» read the statement, claiming that Stringer had collected more than 100,000 signatures «[t] hrough an entirely volunteer» effort.

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His team takes content marketing one step further by including aggregated news stories relevant to Sanders» policies, curating the most relevant information into a single feed on his website, called «Democracy Daily,» focusing on what Sanders cares about most and providing easy social sharing options.
Calling Facebook a «a sewer of misinformation,» Joshua Benton of Harvard's Nieman Lab wrote in a post published Wednesday, «Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really careabout the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»
But even if all you care about is an overall growing economy, stagnating middle incomes can be a problem in a democracy.
The misuse of Budget Bills reflects an arrogance that sees Canadians as not caring about the deeply diminished role of Parliament and the erosion of democracy that they have introduced in recent years.
OTTAWA — The Broadbent Institute cares deeply about renewing Canada's democracy and we welcome the launch of a special parliamentary committee to study new voting systems.
Well, if Christianity (or even one of those other religions) is correct, then the «correct religion» isn't decided by a Democracy... so the fact that 2/3 of the world doesn't care about Christianity doesn't matter, except that it means we still have 2/3 of the world to reach with the Gospel.
We should therefore care less about definitions, and ask the real question: is representative democracy now so overshadowed by capitalism that it is no longer able to make room for the popular sovereignty upon which it was founded?
Professor Cheeseman also writes a regular column for the Sunday Nation, East Africa's most widely read newspaper, and is the founder of Democracy in Africa, a website dedicated to fostering an online community of people that are interested in, and care about, the state of democracy iDemocracy in Africa, a website dedicated to fostering an online community of people that are interested in, and care about, the state of democracy idemocracy in Africa.
(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about») poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works in a democracy.
The Ambassador said Ghana had become one of US's most important partners on the African continent and added «We work together on a wide range of issues we both care about — economic growth and development, democracy and good governance and peace and security.»
Asked which statement came closest to their view, 54 % (49 % in Scotland) said this was a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity to overhaul British democracy, while 27 % (26 %) felt the constitution was tried and tested and care should be taken about changing it too quickly.
Any New Yorker who cares about protecting our families, air and water from the demonstrable harms of fracking and the corporate takeover of our democracy needs to vote for the Green Party, with Howie Hawkins for governor.
If the current republican party truly believed in deregulation then it wouldn't care about forcing democracy on other countries, same sex marriages or women's right to choose.
And I don't give two flying hoots about political careers or such like, it is the daily damage that the Tory vermin are doing to ordinary Britons, their services, their societies and their democracy I care about, and so should the Labour leader.
If you care about our public schools and our democracy, you should be worried.
At other times, I appreciate the democracy of the Internet and, particularly, its chief benefit for those of us who care about book promotion opportunities: if the traditional media outlets are finding your book underwhelming, and they're not offering to interview you, then who care?
As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).
As for the poor — well, who cares about the poor in this country or, for that matter, the importance of a public library system in supporting and maintaining an egalitarian democracy.
You can say that elections are about votes but fundamentally if we do live in a democracy and we care about freedom we should be really investigating what we are saying.»
As I wrote at the time, with all the graphics and lists and other content attending the report release, «Somehow the panel failed to fit in a single graph like this one from the International Energy Agency showing how utterly inconsequential energy research is in advanced democracies (the O.E.C.D.) compared to budgets for science on other things we care about»:
The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet.
I completely agree with you that the «amputation, if not the complete elimination, of law society powers, purpose, and prestige» would be a «brutal revolution», and one that would please no one other than the explosion of bureaucrats who would take over and others who do not care for democracy or who are cavalier about its advantages.
«What I care the most about is... what has this done, what is it doing to democracy
5) Everyone who cares about making opportunities available to anyone in the world, who believes in democracy and the power of the people to have a voice and say in their future, should be interested in and enthusiastic about the Bitcoin Blockchain.
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