Does the definition of democracy fit into a thread on fascism? Maybe. Either way, it’s enlightening.
Tracking Orwellian Change: Democracy
Matt Taibbi in Racket News
In honor of the recent infuriating
Grayzone episode, and at suggestion of
Racket readers like Jim Geschke (of “
Quoth the Maven”), a term whose journey is not from left to right, but meaningful to meaningless:
DEMOCRACY (n):
Whatever we are and Russia is not. Stops at nothing to defend itself, boldly casting norms aside to preserve norms. Contact
Aurum Speakers Bureau to hear Anne Applebaum speak on its behalf. Synonymous with the “rules-based international order,” even though the “international order” views attachment to democratic sovereignty as nationalism. Is already “on the ballot,” and a t-shirt, for 2024. Paradoxically those who cast ballots for “democracy” are more inclined to wonder lately if there is
too much of it here. Incidentally whether or not there is too much democracy at home may be discussed, but whether there is too little in places like Ukraine may not. The modern term
democracy promotion, which even the Brookings Institute says may “rely on cooperation with undemocratic governments” and has connotations of regime change, is a near-perfect antonym of the term it replaced, now in disrepute:
self-determination.