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Western democracy

Imagine there is a freaked out dwarven self-proclaimed hegemon coming inside your home out of nowhere and telling you in the most arrogant manner that you have to follow his way of f-ing the world and that this is a status-quo you are not allowed to change. That is an approachable definition of the western democracy thing going on globally.
U have to comply to western democracy, dude, that is the only way of breathing. Heil democracy!
by Umbago September 5, 2024
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The Democratic Party

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Reagan Democrat

A Democrat who likes/liked Republican President Ronald Reagan. Reagan has consistently received bipartisan popularity and praise. The term can also be used to describe a Democrat who supports a Republican candidate or policy.
Jim: Lily loved President Reagan.

Josh: Really? I thought she was liberal.

Jim: She is, but she's a Reagan Democrat.
by SantoriniSwimmer223 January 3, 2025
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The Democratization of Singapore Math

When more and more countries around the globe are fast embracing the Singapore math curriculum, or part of it, so as not to be left behind educationally and economically, as they copycat or emulate the best educational practices used by local math educators and tiger parents, who have helped put the “fine” city of Singapore on the world’s math education map.
Like the democratization of music, the democratization of Singapore math ought to force math educators in the city-state to embrace the courage imperative, by turning barriers into breakthroughs, or obstacles into opportunities, if they want to maintain an asymmetric advantage over their counterparts in other high GDP economies.
by Numerati January 14, 2025
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NASCAR Democrat

A NASCAR Democratic, also known as a White Trash Democrat, is a White person who has conservative values and preferences, but vocally criticizes Republicans because of their low socioeconomic status.
I keep seeing NASCAR Democrats posting Facebook stories at Walmart about how Trump is raising the price of eggs.
by Definitionally February 12, 2025
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Crony Democracy

Crony Democracy is a sham political system that maintains the outward appearance of a democracy—elections, parties, a constitution—but where real power, wealth, and policy are shaped by a tight, corrupt network of connections between the ruling political class and their favored business elites.

In a crony democracy, your success depends less on merit, public support, or fair competition, and more on who you know, who you’ve bribed, or which politician you went to school with. The government uses regulation, state contracts, and public resources to reward allies and punish opponents, while keeping up a theatrical performance of legitimate democratic process for the voters and the international community.
Don't be fooled by the elections here; it's a total crony democracy. The president's cousin got the billion-dollar infrastructure contract, his major donor's company pays no taxes, and the opposition can't even get airtime on TV.
by AbzuInExile January 24, 2026
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Council Democracy

A model where sovereign political power rests with a network of directly elected, recallable, and grassroots councils (like workers' councils in factories or community councils in neighborhoods), which federate upward to larger coordinating bodies. It rejects both liberal parliamentarism and vanguard party dictatorship, aiming for a bottom-up, delegate-based system. It’s the political structure championed by libertarian socialists and council communists, who saw it in the brief flowering of the Paris Commune or the early Soviet councils before Bolshevik centralization.
*Example: The short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919) attempted to implement Council Democracy. Factories and city districts elected councils that sent recallable delegates to a central congress, aiming to administer society without a separate, professional bureaucracy or party hierarchy. It was crushed by Freikorps and central government forces.*
by Dumu The Void February 5, 2026
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