Sentences with phrase «striking about democracy»
Given such obstacles, what's striking about democracy at Atlas isn't how far it has progressed — we're talking baby steps here — but how much the concept has already become part of the cultural woodwork.
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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.
Even if they are wrong, the idea that a court can declare that someone's public statements about a controversial political issue are lies and punish them with criminal penalties strikes at the very heart of democracy.
The Trump administration has made a series of unsupported claims about voter fraud that strike at the heart and integrity of our democracy.
«I will not take lectures about democracy from a government elected on only 24 % of those eligible to vote - and only 10 % of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots.»
Classes lose their cadence, and their rhythm; reflective discussions and debates are jarringly interrupted by school bells that silence a student's closing comment on labor strikes or leave unanswered a question about the differences between representative and direct democracy.
Had they duly considered the process of transition, struck dialogue, and forged alliances leading up to the uprisings about the content of «democracy» and «social justice» it is likely that they might have fared better at the polls.
This essay by Roger Scruton on the subject of «Democracy» makes a point that strikes a chord in this debate about science:
What struck us about the article referred to at the top of the thread, other than Monbiot's misconception of «consumer democracy», is that he points to research that apparently demonstrates scientifically that ethical consumerism does not work.