🧵 THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? 🤔When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders.They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted o
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At the Athens Democracy Forum:"When people are poor, you cannot expect them to think about democracy... and finally we ended up protecting democracy from the people."She calls this an oxymoron. But what she's describing IS the system... and she names Trump alongside Erdogan and Putin as the thing it failed to prevent.
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