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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 11 Dec 2017

    All those "death of democracy" stories confuse examples with trends, like climate-change skeptics who overinterpret a cold day. The data show that democracy is on a long-term rise, right up to the present. @brucebrookings @MichaelEOHanlon https://www.wsj.com/articles/democracy-is-far-from-dead-1512938275 … via @WSJOpinion

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      2. Politics of Outrage  🌹‏ @America2_0 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @MoisesNaim and

        That's not what I'm seeing. Until we get rid of privately-owned, proprietary black-box voting machines and super delegates, there won't be a democracy.

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      3. Politics of Outrage  🌹‏ @America2_0 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @America2_0 @sapinker and

        At least they put the word "free" in quotes. That's says it all. We don't live in a democracy. Steven, you know that. I agree with your atheist views, but it's sounds like you're a shill for the "democratic" establishment.

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      4. Aaron Gretsinger‏ @aaronomus 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @America2_0 @sapinker and

        The system we're living in now is better than any system that's existed in the past. And name one primary where superdelegates have thrown an election to a loser of the popular vote. I'll wait.

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      5. Politics of Outrage  🌹‏ @America2_0 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aaronomus @sapinker and

        Not better than the FDR years. We're witnessing wholesale theft of the US. And SD's, maybe, don't know. I do know SDs' purpose is to tilt the tables to favor establishment candidate and suppress grassroots candidates. That's not democracy.

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      2. Per-Ola Norrby‏ @PeONor 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @curiouswavefn and

        If you confuse “democracy” with “holding elections”, yes. If, as in the US, the electable to highest office are limited to a very small group supported by multimillionaires, I call it plutocracy, not democracy

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      1. Michael K. Osta‏ @MichaelOsta 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        I think @Kasparov63 might have a different view?

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      1. Cruz‏ @CruzWhobris 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        The Wall Street Journal editorial board is certainly trying to kill our democracy by undermining the rule of law in America. Why can’t the partisans on @wsj put their country over their party? Glad I stopped my subscription as soon as Murdoch bought the paper.

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      2. Atavistic Ultracrepidarian‏ @AmbientLion 11 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        Abrupt changes in social/political systems is not unprecedented. Extrapolating trends about human (vs natural) systems is error prone.

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      1. Simone‏ @_adynaton 13 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        Democracy is far from dead, and this is a fact, but we must acknowledge its fragility and watch over its actual survival in contemporary society against the threats of religious fanaticism and economic corporatism.

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      1. Xander Suter‏ @XanderSuter 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        Thanks for sharing Steven. Love your work!

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      1. Scary Shiva Jaamen‏ @Jaamennn 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        Illiberal democracy is also on the rise

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      1. Badder than Satan, Drunker than God‏ @GeorgeHemingto1 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        All swans are white

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      1. Larry Ray‏ @LarryJRay 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        Who says democracy is "dead"? This is a straw argument. Need to have a more nuanced scale of political systems esp distinguish full and flawed democracy. US been rated flawed, which would skew the figures a bit.https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/us-is-no-longer-a-full-democracy-eiu-warns.html …

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      1. Marcelo Guimaraes 💚‏ @klynamen 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        in Brazil democracy is disappearing fast

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      1. Glen Binnie‏ @BinnieGlen 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        The “death of democracy” stories usually relate to long established democracies which appear to be in trouble.

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      1. Gortl‏ @Gortl2 12 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @brucebrookings and

        Or climate alarmists who overinterpret every warm day, every storm, and every starving animal. That logic works the other way around too.

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