But he is a vocal critic too of the current regime, and for the past 15 months has been prevented from writing what used to be a regular, pro-democracy newspaper column.
He counters that he still mocks everyone — he even has a puppet of himself, which makes regular appearances on "Democracy".
This blogger, a regular at our Democracy in America blog, has put down many thoughts on language in American politics, as in here, here, here and here.
"It is earnestly recommended to Mad Tom that he should embark for France and there be naturalized into the regular confusion of democracy," the London Times urged.
Leaders of the other 18 countries in the eurozone have been angered by Tsipras's regular emphasis on "democracy", arguing that they, too, are the servants of their own democratic public opinion and that if referendums were held in Germany, Finland or the Netherlands, Greece would be unceremoniously ejected from the currency rather than receiving €240bn in loans.
The clearest example of this is the creation of a political system that has the appearance of democracy – regular elections, multiple parties, a free media – without any of the substance: the elections are rigged; the parties are all under the president's control; the media do what their owners tell them, and the owners obey the Kremlin.
"If regular order precludes democracy from working," Hoyer said, "then it's irregular order".
In a representative democracy, regular elections provide a potential mechanism for voters to hold politicians accountable for their performance by enabling the removal of office-holders that are under-performing (Key, 1966; Ferejohn, 1986; Besley, 2006).
Besides regular elections, electoral democracies violate civil liberties, censor the media and fundamentally establish an authoritarian form.
Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy and democracy with regular national elections, but Bersih organizers say that elections are vulnerable to manipulation.
