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The principles or spirit of a democracy; the ideology of democracy..
At a time when the leaders of the “free” world can run systems in an authoritarian manner, replete with their jingoisms and subtexts of internal colonialism, it is rather urgent that we demystify democratism, one that in its current iteration in the United States has enabled the emergence of what can be seen as a totalitarian democracy; […]
Democratism is framed within the democratic lexicon, but its defining feature is a longing for a new type of existence that has little to do with “rule by the people.”
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Democratism means The principles or spirit of a democracy; the ideology of democracy..
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At a time when the leaders of the “free” world can run systems in an authoritarian manner, replete with their jingoisms and subtexts of internal colonialism, it is rather urgent that we demystify democratism, one that in its current iteration in the United States has enabled the emergence of what can be seen as a totalitarian democracy; […]
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