And political power and influence, which antitrade protesters praise as democratic, becomes the biggest barrier to riches -- and the greatest source of poverty.
The longer the occupation lasts, and the larger the Arab and Palestinian populations grow in territory under Israeli control, the more untenable Israel's future as both Jewish and democratic becomes.
Mahamane Ousmane of the Social Democratic Convention became president in the country's first multiparty presidential elections in 1993.
The German Democratic Republic became a member in September 1950 and the Mongolian People's Republic in June 1962.
Politics, after a decade of right-wing assault on social and democratic institutions, became unfashionable.
Imagine if Mr. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee, became president and supported such measures.
William Bulger, a scholar, wit and prominent Democratic politician, became one of the state's most powerful public figures.
When the Democratic party became the instrument of those seeking change - through welfare intervention and civil rights - he abandoned it.
After the September 11th attacks, when exporting democratic ideas became a matter of national security, the State Department hired a Madison Avenue executive to "brand" America for Arabs and others.
The democratic community became, for him, the realization of the dialectic rationality of the Spirit with a rigorous separation of church and state.
