We believe in government by and for the people.

On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.

I'll show you.

National welfare is the end of politics.

And even as there will be huge challenges to come with a transition to democracy,

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

I always laugh at this, because I have no idea how they're elected, actually.

People's Liberation Army Wen River Military, Political Office.

Democracy is one form of government.

I think I was 11 years, and I started asking questions, and that's when my political education started.

They come from us.

Today we have globalized the markets but we have not globalized our democratic institutions.

Representative democracy is one form of government.

A politician should serve the people.

Actually, the answer is more nuanced and subtle than that.

Politics has much to do with me.

Political parties oh, boy.

Now these are things about general culture, but I'm also very much interested in political culture and whether liberty and democracy is appreciated, or whether there's an authoritarian political culture in which the state is supposed to impose things on the citizens.

The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few, or the rule of a mob

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

And behind this powerful disagreement between how to close that gap, there's the worst kind of cynical party politics, the worst kind of insider baseball, lobbying, all of that stuff, but there's also this powerfully interesting, respectful disagreement between two fundamentally different economic philosophies.

The Politics of Frustration

What do the Atkins Diet and the Japanese Diet have in common?

We'll be discussing politics, next.

You can't go to jail for something you haven't done.

I would start covering my hair.

He's a political consultant.

Political Officer!

Political Officer.

Political Officer.

Political Officer!

But to get to that stage, where democracy builds the fabric of society and the political choices within that fabric, but are certainly not theocratic and military dictatorship i.e. you're voting in a democracy, in an existing democracy, and that democracy is not merely one of the choices at the ballot box.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.

The nation as a whole is in favor of political reform.

The embassy denied political asylum to foreign refugees.

I'm a good organizer.

Where would that leave us?

You're a tribe!

But instead of the unwillingness of the candidates to allow the system to proceed and the people to decide,

In France I find a lot of protection and we ask for political asylum to protect us, to protect my family

Ines So why is prevalence still rising?

What that will do is avoid the problem I was talking about earlier, where currently we have political parties presenting democracy as merely a political choice in those societies alongside other choices such as military rule and theocracy.

I had such faith in our democratic system, our selfgovernment.

90 percent of the funding came from Thailand.

You don't want to talk about politics, right?