I frequently hear in person or on electronic media coments about democracy being harmed by some politicians, and that is here in the United States of America, which was set up as a federal republic made up of republics. Please note that the initial documents didn’t mention democracy; republics were specified. These facts lead me to think that many people do not know what democracy is. The difference between a democracy and a republic is clear and easy to define A democracy is a government ...
Has it become normal and ordinary for people who are demonstrably irrational or delusional or suffering from other types of mental illness to be treated as if they were sane? From political puffery to conspiracy theories to quack medicine to deviant behavior becoming the norm mental abnormalities are becoming acceptable in general society. In a general sense this is not a new thing; people have been complaining about the lowering of standards of behavior for thousands of years, but ...