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Is This the End of Democracy?

🚨 Look around you. Democracy isn’t dying in some distant place—it’s being dismantled right where you stand. The world you wake up to, the choices you make, the news you consume—everything is shaped by forces you can’t see. But those forces? They’re shifting. And the democracy you thought you were living in? It may already be gone. 🚨 We still vote. Elections still happen. Leaders change. So why does it […]

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The Price of Democracy

Democracy was invented by the Greeks. But their philosophers had very grave doubts about it and generally did not believe that it could be brought to work. Socrates explained it like this: Imagine an election between two candidates: a doctor and a sweet shop owner. The sweet shop owner would say of his rival:“Look, this person here has worked many evils on you. He hurts you, gives you bitter potions […]

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