Liberal Democratic Orthodoxy

The established, institutionalized set of beliefs that define mainstream liberal democracy—the often-unexamined assumptions about elections, representation, rights, and the relationship between liberalism and democracy. Liberal democratic orthodoxy includes commitments: that elections confer legitimacy, that representation works, that rights protect freedom, that liberal and democratic values align, that liberal democracies are fundamentally just, and that the liberal democratic model is the end of political history. Like all orthodoxies, it provides a framework for political understanding, but it can function as ideology—making liberal democratic arrangements seem natural and inevitable, obscuring their limitations (exclusion, inequality, corporate power), and delegitimizing alternatives. Liberal democratic orthodoxy determines what counts as "democratic" versus "authoritarian," what political arrangements are "legitimate," and who counts as a "real" democrat versus a threat to democracy.

Example: "He couldn't see how liberal democracies might themselves be sites of oppression—not because he'd examined the question, but because liberal democratic orthodoxy had made critique of democracy itself unthinkable. The orthodoxy's power is making its objects immune to fundamental critique."

by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026

Post-Democratic Theokakifascoligatocracy

The clusterfuck of Theocracy, Kakistocracy, Fascism, Oligarchy, and Corporatocracy that the American government is becoming, all stemming from the dismissal of democracy and the use of unfair and outdated vote counting processes like gerrymandering and the Electoral College that give greater power to smaller states per capita and whiter populations per congressional district.

"What is going on in the big ol' USofA these days?"

"Oh, not much. It's just becoming a Post-Democratic Theokakifascoligatocracy. No biggie."

by P E N G U I N August 30, 2025

Southern mother fucking democratic republicants

This is a line from the Hamilton movie

Let's show these people who there up against ohhhhhh southern mother fucking democratic republicants

by Christiano Ronaldo or Messi su August 4, 2022

sahrawi arab democratic republic

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara) is a part of Morocco until it revolted and they are both still at war.

Person 1: "I stand for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic"
Person 2: "You mean Western Sahara, right?"

by mr man the science man April 14, 2023

Why did democrats lose so bad?

Dumb. Retarded. Bad.

A retard "Why did democrats lose so bad?"

Hym "I told you that was going to happen."

A retard "Yeah but why though?"

Hym "I mean, I told you what to do to win and you did not-that."

A retard "Nah, it's not that."

Hym "YOU wouldn't know! You thought you'd win! You didn't know you would lose but somehow you magically know why you lost? I mean, I can tell you why you lost. Dumb. Bad. Delusional. Retarded. It's a combination of all of those."

by Hym Iam December 11, 2024

People’s Democratic Republic of Levana

People’s Democratic Republic of Levana (PDRL) is the official name for a micronation located to the west of Norway.

They were born in People’s Democratic Republic of Levana

by Frieda ie. Maomai January 22, 2026

Psychology of Democratic Masses

The study of how large populations behave in democratic contexts—forming opinions, participating in politics, responding to leaders and events. Democratic masses are not simply collections of rational individuals; they're psychological entities with moods, biases, and dynamics that transcend individual psychology. The psychology of democratic masses examines how public opinion forms (often through emotion and identity rather than reason), how it shifts (through events, leadership, media), and how it can be manipulated (through fear, hope, division). It also examines the tension between mass psychology and democratic theory: democracy assumes a rational public, but masses are rarely rational. The survival of democracy depends on managing this tension—on institutions that channel mass psychology toward constructive ends.

Example: "She studied the psychology of democratic masses during an election season, watching as the public mood swung with every event, every ad, every speech. The masses weren't reasoning; they were reacting. Democracy wasn't failing; it was just human. The question was whether institutions could handle that humanity without collapsing."

by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026