Secrecy is completely inadequate for democracy but totally appropriate for tyranny".
Colonel Qaddafi's idea is that representative democracy is inadequate because it involves citizens assigning their rights and responsibilities to someone else.
With only one Indian firm—Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)— ranked among the world's largest 500 firms, the earth's most populous democracy feels somewhat inadequate.
It's not democracy that's inadequate, but a system of representative government in which only the enormously wealthy, or those who have indentured themselves to moneyed interests, can cross the threshold into leadership positions.
In Iraq, at least, the Administration, having accepted that its initial democracy efforts were wholly inadequate, has begun to make serious commitments.
For Mr. Obama to win favor, however, he needs to address challenges facing the Arab world, from poverty and inadequate education systems to limits on democracy and human rights.
Still, Ms. Madikizela-Mandela remains beloved among the poor, who express disappointment that democracy has not brought relief from soaring unemployment and inadequate schools and housing.
(In the run-up to the 1992 Presidential election, Nixon sent a long and vehement memo to dozens of foreign-policy mandarins, attacking President George Bush's support for democracy in Russia as "pathetically inadequate").
The paper sees echoes in his victory "of the increasingly alarming general rightward shift in the politics of other postindustrial western democracies, to which progressives have again produced inadequate responses".
In that sense, the Trump triumph has echoes of the increasingly alarming general rightward shift in the politics of other post-industrial western democracies, to which progressives have again produced inadequate responses.
