Sentences with phrase «like about democracy»

This is one of the things that I like about democracy.

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Yet there's no such unanimity about what workplace democracy should look like.

Nothing about democracy in his statements, it's all about economic freedom pereptrated by the likes of Hayek, Flannigan, Harper and those crazies pushing their propaganda at the Fraser Institute.

It is about keeping this country a democracy or turning it in to a religiously controlled one like Iran.

To a late 20th - century church that speaks about «economic democracy» and «solidarity with the poor,» these may seem like modest goals, morally speaking.

When you're talking about Revelation you're talking about Jesus» Second Coming, and there are a lot of Christians who think that their religion wouldn't be worth the effort unless they personally got to see their Lord and Savior slaughter all the liberals and end democracy like it says in that book.

It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).

After listening to Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson explain why bills like the Farm Workers Bill of Rights should be allowed to come to the floor for a debate and eventual vote even if it's clear they don't have sufficient support to pass — «This is about 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.

Arab regimes, like just about all other underdeveloped countries - sorry, make that «developing countries» for political correctness - are much more corrupt than western democracies.

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

Whether we like it or not, populists around the world are posing legitimate questions about the state of democracy.

(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.

As Shami Chakrabarti steps down as director of Liberty, she talks to Politics.co.uk about Theresa May, British democracy and what home secretaries are like in private

Mandelson is probably intensely relaxed about cutting democratic corners if it means more «New Labour» special advisers and the like on the green benches, but utterly opposed to the normal workings of Labour democracy if it means leftwing or trade union candidates being chosen.

If he believe that democracy is about saying whatever one likes, the foot soldier does not understand it that way!.

@LamonteCristo When someone tells me «The US should adopt European Democracy», then I would assume that they are talking about constitutional aspects like proportional representation parliaments and election of government heads by the parliament, not socioeconomic policy.

We have seen opposition in the UK parliament from economic libertarians like Peter Lilley, who worry about TTIP's effect on sovereignty and democracy.

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.

I'm not sure about the democracy bit in the UK... the draconian measures taken by the Tory - LDs on such a mandate, looks like a neoliberal coup d'etat to me.

Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.

If you are a nerd like me, you might enjoy a more technical and research heavy book on bees such as The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism or Honeybee Democracy.

I have a possible complaint about a relatively young democracy like France in this movie being so keen on seeking such a strong military leader as its president.

«As a result, your approach to social relationships and the emotions you have toward role models, teachers, and peers will change the way you think about non-social concepts like math or democracy or political issues like the death penalty.

«For us, it is really about the vision that instead of investing billions of dollars in a wall that divides our community, what we really should be doing is investing heavily in great public schools for our children,» said Blair, whose coalition represents groups like the Advancement Project and the Center for Popular Democracy.

Whether like Jennifer Alexander who lobbies for charter schools, you see thousands of Connecticut public school students «trapped in failing schools» or, like me, you see the possibilities for curriculum design and professional development in those schools, what we have before us and before the Connecticut legislators in the future is a key moral question about what is the right thing for citizens in a democracy and their elected representatives to do.

Anybody who thinks it's a great idea to eschew democracy in publishing and only allow books approved by «gatekeepers» might think about the idea that the gatekeepers tend to be people like the moron who scrawled this article.

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»:

Environmentalists like to talk about democracy.

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?

Anyway, what I'd like to do here is presume Trump's defeat in advance and make a few observations about democracy, the rule of law and the importance of humour in elections.

In certain democracies like Scandinavian countries and Canada doctors are paid employees and are paid about $ 100,000 per annum.