It's heartwarming to see all these champions of freedom and democracy lining up to exercise their right to vote.
JOHANNESBURG — As heads of state from across southern Africa meet here Saturday to wrestle yet again with Zimbabwe's intractable crisis, the country's 87-year-old strongman, Robert Mugabe, is facing a new reality: a strong and very public pro-democracy line from the region's most powerful country, South Africa.
Further, while most parents are happy to have new school choices, the breadth of those choices has begun to raise profound questions about the role of public education in a democracy, the line between public and private that is now being blurred, and the implications of all this for American civic life.
Some readers have even tried to bring the Republic's judgment of democracy into line with the Statesman, where the Stranger ranks democracy above oligarchy.
Iran needs to bring its democracy in line with God's plan revealed in the Qur'an.
Suu Kyi said that her opposition party want this provision to be changed "not because we want to win a case, but because we think certain constitutional amendments are necessary if this country is to be a truly functional democracy in line with the will of the people".
In centre-left and centre-right coalitions, and the growing PR-driven hypocrisy of democracy, the lines seem to blur more and more, with a growing disparity between what is said to win votes, and actual underlying philosophy and policy.
Hong Kong publications that have a clear pro-democracy editorial line, like the Chinese-language Apple Daily, alsufferfromfrom a lack of advertising revenue, as companies keen on doing business with China are discouraged from buying ad space.
But it has also fed into a growing sense that, after 20 years of democracy, the lines between the state, the government, and the ANC are becoming increasingly blurred - at least in the eyes of some of those in power.
One of Carlson's core concerns is that those in Middle America who are not Hispanic or black are under attack and that being a nationalist should be a "prerequisite for running a democracy". The lines are not difficult to draw.
