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In social choice, a tyranny-of-the-majority scenario can be formally defined as a situation where the candidate or decision preferred by a majority is greatly inferior (hence "tyranny") to the socially optimal candidate or decision according to some measure of excellence such as total utilitarianism or the egalitarian rule.
In their 2022 book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy, Gorski and co-author Samuel Perry, a professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, wrote that white Christian nationalists share a set of common anti-democratic beliefs and principles that "add up to a political vision that ...
Confederate States of America: Seven Southern slave states seceded from the United States of America in response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. [21] Four more Southern states seceded in response to Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion. [22] These states formed the Confederate States of America.
Florida has the most banned books in the country. Most of the banned books have African American and/or gay themes and characters. DeSantis & Company want to erase these two segments of our community.
Vice President Kamala Harris sealed the Democratic presidential nomination with a muscular speech, laying down broad foreign policy principles and sharp contrasts with Republican rival Donald ...
Joe Biden ascended to the highest office in America with a pledge to unite the country, strengthen his party and defend democracy. Instead, in the 82-year-old’s Oval Office denouement, he leaves ...
The Guardian listed the term "outposts of tyranny" with "rogue states," "states of concern," "outlaw states" and "pariah states" as terminology of the "longstanding American policy of setting up international bogeymen." [14] The State Department has not used the term "outposts of tyranny" officially.
Just one in five voters, for example, knew that Donald Trump had said his claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election were grounds for him to terminate the Constitution.