Sentences with phrase «knew about democracy»

They never knew about democracy or human rights either.

What does a scientist know about democracy that anyone plucked off the street doesn't know?

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So I think we already knew that it was an effort to undermine American democracy and to really say horrible things about Secretary Clinton.

That's not because he called attention to anything in DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA that we postmodern conservatives didn't already know about.

But neither does she shy from addressing hard truths, for she knows that democracy, far from being a machine that runs of itself, is contingent upon truth and truths - about human nature, the dynamics of power, and what we can reasonably expect from history.

These primitive tribal religions have no place in a modern democracy... I don't know... something about separation of church and state???

(We can talk about the democratic practice of an omnibus bill later, perhaps, because gracious, what a miscarriage of democracy...) So Bill C - 45 is an omnibus bill, attached to our budget currently going through Parliament, with hundreds of provisions included, which (and these are the key ones related to Idle No More) seriously undermine our environmental sustainability as a nation and the sovereign rights of the First Nations still existing within our borders.

In case you missed it, you lost the election, you know... that democracy thing you keep talking about.

We know that television informs us, a genuine window on the world, but also that its commercial demand for profit severely limits the amount of diversity of opinion that is aired, that it tends to trivialize issues and to represent the views of the rich, so that through TV the average citizen simply can not get the information needed to make intelligent decisions about living in our democracy.

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

So far in 2017, aside from contemplating the end of democracy as we know it, we've learned a few things about parenting trends that could very well set the tone for the rest of the year.

You can also tell a tween or teen that knowing how to read, write and think critically about issues is important in our democracy.

Talking about values is cheap, sticking out your political neck to try and construct these values in the actual world is expensive - saying no to corporations rather than finger - waving, creating strong laws rather than voluntary codes, recognising and defending unions as a legitimate defence of those with limited power and the strikes which go with it, being prepared to replace internal markets with internal democracies and so forth.

Women living in the world's most advanced democracies and under the most progressive gender equality regimes still know less about politics than men.

So far, we know very little about the media in the numerous new democracies around the world except sporadic outbreaks of anger from NGOs specialised in media freedom.

The attempt to know everything about everybody on a global level is a totalitarian power, whether or not you think that power is being exercised in order to reduce or to limit democracy.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

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?

But how can a democracy function effectively if the population are not educated about the political system, and thus don't know which form of government best represents them, or which form of government is in their best interests?

If the success of a representative democracy hinges on the informed consent of the governed, it is critical that the public know as much as possible about the information used and the processes by which its representatives spend tax dollars and act on policy recommendations.

Just think about that for a moment — a Tory - led government deciding the legality of its actions can no longer be questioned — and consider the implications for our democracy.

Democracy is hard to quantify, so I am trying an argument from authority and base my answers on the assessments of an organization which knows far more about politics and did far more research than me.

«She would actually challenge Cuomo intellectually about the policies around progressive ideals because she probably knows the policies better than he does,» said Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and a colleague of Teachout's at the Sunlight Foundation, which promotes transparency in government.

Take out the references to Blair, update the Paddy Ashdown quote, add something suitably sombre from Betty Boothroyd about how this will end democracy in Britain as we know it, and stick it in the editorials.

Our bigger job is to help America fulfill the promise of democracy itself, the promise that this is a country where everybody gets a chance — no matter who you are, where you come from, where you live, or what you think about the issues of the day,» said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who in addition to talking up politics announced she would put $ 175,000 of her campaign cash into the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and campaigns for state legislature seats.

It is difficult to understand that such people, knowing what they do know, would set about so blatantly to confuse people, and go as far as calling for the overthrow of our democracy?

His form of democracy is to know that you are serious about what you are saying.

about being a genuine democracy (whatever that means) I don't know how to address that.

I just thought you ought to know the shit you're in so you won't get too excited about defending a Monarchy that the local politicians have used consistently since 1919 to undermine democracy in Australia.

This of course confirms what we always knew about Socialism Democracy.

«Democracy is only feasible when people know something about the candidates.»

«It's appalling that Labour have blocked these proposals and tells you everything you need to know about how Labour views both the media and democracy.

You know, people sometimes say that when students from China come here and study and they go back, that they are bringing back western ideas, bringing back, you know, values of human rights and democracy, but that's partly true and definitely I have seen a lot of people come back with these kinds of ideas, well others come back and they have had such a negative experience in the United States that they become defensive about the one - party system, they become fans of it in someways.

To which I would add that there seemed to be far less objection when, only last year, the Palme d'Or went to another meditative film about nature, death, and possible afterlives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — perhaps because there is no right - wing Buddhist conspiracy suspected of plotting to undermine Western democracy as we know it.

The psychologists knew that what they found caused discomfort and challenged old - fashioned ideas about democracy, but scientists - they said - could not be held responsible for their findings.

Catholics really don't believe in God and secularists are no longer very sure about democracy.

Its citizens must know something about democracy and about individual rights and responsibilities.

executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy and publisher of PRWatch.org and ExposedByCMD.org Her new piece is titled «5 Things to Know About Billionaire Betsy DeVos, Trump Education Choice.»

Ravitch not only provides the evidence of the falsity of these claims and reforms, she also discusses how current education rhetoric and policy are damaging our public schools, our communities, our democracy and most importantly, our children; how these policies go against everything our founders intended public education to be and everything science knows about child development.

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).

PS: If you want to know more about the dispute between MASS MoCA and Christoph Büchel we recommend Roberta Smith's article in The New York Times or just google «training ground for democracy».

And when you have people who don't know much about science standing in denial of it and rising to power, that is a recipe for the complete dismantling of our informed democracy.»

You remind me that the tribe of those who know is growing and that together we will bring about the rise of democracy once again.

Lappé dismantles seven common «thought traps» — from limits to growth to the failings of democracy — that belie what we now know about nature, including our own, and offers contrasting «thought leaps» that reveal our hidden power.

Let's bring it closer to home, because you will know that one of the things that happens here is that whenever there's a dicussion for example about climate change, or the environment in this country, one of the things that is constantly urged is that people, for example, curtail their use of energy, change their behaviour, and the government are asked to impose those changes because you can't trust the democracy to do it themselves.

Does he know that the so - called «Arab Spring» protests in Egypt that triggered all the shouts about democracy among liberals, were actually food riots caused by governments listening to alternate fuel advocates like IPS?

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