democracies

Fewer than half the people on Earth today live in democracies (though it's close: 48%), only 12.5% live in full democracies.

In democracies trying to suppress or censor an idea or argument will just end up elevating them.

One could certainly argue by those metrics that most countries that consider themselves democracies do not fit that definition.

It's interesting.) There are numerous states that have functioned quite well that _weren't_ (or aren't) democracies.

These treaties are just an hostile takeover of the corporate world on our fake democracies.

In the end we're living in democracies and have to take the opinion of the people into consideration.

Western parliamentary regimes call themselves 'democracies' to look good just like soviet countries did.

Today's western parliamentary regimes are oligarchies and in absolutely no way democracies.

Copyright is a foundation of liberal democracies all over the world.

As in other democracies the parliament has to vote.

The reason for a referendum is so, whatever comes next, the people and the governing party go in knowing they are together, with a level of bonding that is extremely rare in our cynically modern western democracies.

I think people don't realize just how much effective power and agency by law the US executive branch has compared to most other western democracies.

Democracies have been known for only a few brief periods of human existence.

I recently sat and read a Reddit/r/History discussion on Pirate-ship Democracies, the continual (and all very similar) puns & jokes about pirates littered between the interesting points got really, really annoying very fast.

Democracies tend to be based on a constitution which are generally as hard as divine laws to change, require obedience (does it really matter if God or the judge/police hands out the punishment) and absolute faith on an ideology (democracy).