DICTATORSHIP

What Happens When a ‘Democracy’ Too Much Ignores Public Opinion

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Even a dictatorship needs to pay attention to public opinion, in order to prevent there being a revolution. Consequently they have methods to control public opinion by censoring out what is true, and replacing it with falsehoods that boost their public support. In the Western dictatorships — those that constitute […]

Here’s how democratic your country is:

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) When a nation’s head-of-state has more than half of its residents who choose either “Approve” or “Disapprove” of that leader choose “Approve” and thereofore fewer than half of them choose “Disapprove” for that leader, then this suggests majority-approval of that person’s leadership of the Government; and this generally indicates that […]

If U.S.-&-Allied countries are democracies, then why are their leaders despised by the people they rule?

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The theory behind a democracy is that the public get to choose their leaders. If the theory has been adhered to — reflects the reality — then at least 50% of the public in such a country approve of their leader. Here are the actual latest polled approve-disapprove ratings of […]

The Fraud That’s Called ‘Democracy’ in The West

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The clearest example of this is today’s UK Government as described by a renegade former UK Ambassador, Craig Murray, headlining on July 19th about the next general election there between the conservative Keir Starmer who leads the Labour Party versus the conservative whomever will be leading the Conservative Party; he […]

How the Billionaires Control U.S.-and-Allied Governments

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) In virtually every country that’s allied with the U.S. Government against Russia and against China, there is a low public job-approval-rating for its head-of-state and for its Government, and a rating that is far lower than is the public job-approval for the leaders of the countries that the U.S. gang […]

America’s Performance on the Important International Rankings

Eric Zuesse The least unreliable international rankings will here be linked-to for the various nations, on: per-person income, economic growth-rate, economic equality, happiness (perceived well-being), percentage in prison, murder rate, life-expectancy, perceived democracy of government, trust in the government, and governmental corruptness. The complete rankings will be shown only for happiness, because that might be […]