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that the American government is becoming, all stemming from the dismissal of democracy and the use of unfair and outdated vote counting processes like gerrymandering and the Electoral College that give greater power to smaller states per capita and whiter populations per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

Vote Democrat

Going to the bathroom to take a a massive 💩. Usually after Taco Bell

My stomach is so bloated I think I may need to vote democrat.

by Honey-Badger-Orca October 26, 2025

Cookie Butter Democrat

A person, generally upper middle class, who claims to be progressive and/or leftist, but it extremely centrist and cares little for the struggles of marginalized groups (unless directly affected). Cookie Butter Democrats embrace neoliberal values and believe that capitalism can be ethical. The term comes from the phrase "Democrats don't really care about native sovereignty and will not until affects the supply of cookie butter at Trader Joe's"

He doesn't care about imperialism , he's a Cookie Butter Democrat.

by feeshna January 26, 2017

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

The Devil is a Democrat

A phrase used by extreme-right religious activists to (literally) demonize the left.

The full quote is:

"God is not a Republican, but the Devil is a Democrat."

If you think that this is one of the stupidest things you've ever heard, even if "Republican" and "Democrat" were to be transposed, good job - you're a normal person.

by Ubeenbamboozledson July 26, 2024