Sentences with phrase «really about democracy»

In the end, I believe that much of this expressed anger and protest is really about Democracy Prep's control over staff, including its hiring process.

«It isn't really about democracy in Venezuela.

Not exact matches

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 care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.»

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

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

Progressivism hasn't really been about democracy, but the supplanting of relational institutions and traditions with the schoolmarmish discipline of enlightened experts.

They felt strongly about American democracy and women's rights, but they're old enough that it wasn't really feasible for a lot of them to go out to the marches in nearby San Diego.

LM: It's not really a question of salvaging, since any general political paradigm is valuable insofar as it provides the parameters for thinking about the ends of democracy.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

Particularly with a general election less than two years away, conference as the platform for presenting ourselves as a party of real democracy, as well as being passionate about policy, is really important.

While all eyes are on the EU referendum, another big international deal is taking place that will show us what David Cameron really thinks about parliamentary democracy.

There is no reason to think that it's an effective way to bring about change and even if Western democracies really had the power to remake other countries in their image, it's not entirely unproblematic to dictate (once again!)

I am voting to close this question as primarily opinion - based, because to answer the question «is the UK really a democracy» we first would need to define what «a democracy» actually is, and that's a topic we could debate about endlessly.

Lawmaker representing Ijebu Ode / Odogbolu / Ijebu North East at the House of Representatives, Hon. Kehinde Odeneye, has called on Nigerians not to appraise President Muhammadu Buhari based on his democracy day speech because there is nothing really much to say about a year into his administration where he was so much inundated with the task of putting what was abruptly left by the previous administration back into perspectives.

«But the other reason why I think it's unfortunate... we really should be talking about the substantive issues about our democracy.»

What this is really about is how Big Data could be used by a criminal organization to subvert democracy for their own gains.

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

And in a wonderful and timely bit of irony, the College Board's forthcoming renovation of the SAT tests — markedly more influential than the AP (and perhaps the Common Core itself) in shaping what kids have to learn in school if they want to go to a good college — includes enough attention to the seminal documents of American history and the ideas they embody to give pause to Chinese authorities who really don't want their kids learning about democracy and freedom while preparing to seek entry to a U.S. university.

«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.

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.»