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Abuse of fear of Islamism leads to undemocratic and paranoid behaviours

1 May 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

Abuse of the fear of Islamism leads to authoritarian and destructive social development. In Sweden, as elsewhere in Europe, there is justified fear of and criticism directed at Islamist politicians and organizations. Islamism is about, among other th...

Introducing "Predictive Liquid Democracy"

26 Apr 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

My intellectual friend Loke Hagberg, creator of the Digital Demoracy NGO in Sweden, has, together with Samuel Färdow Kazen, written a publication about Predictive Liquid Democracy. Their work focuses on ideas and proposals about how liquid democracy...

Interesting Electoral Bond corruption case that allowed India's ruling party to extract bonus benefits for political gains

19 Apr 2024 10 minute read 5 comments Greenchic

Generated using Freepik  Imprisonment of a political leader just so that BJP nails it grand in the upcoming Indian Central Government elections!! As India’s main election nears, dramas have been unfolding. One of them being the arrest of Delhi’s Ch...

Similarities between liquid democracy and Walter Lippman’s criticism of representative democracy

9 Apr 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

Recently, I wrote an article about Walter Lippman’s opinions and arguments about democracy. Due to my work with ideas of liquid democracy, I think there are several similarities and patterns between Lippman’s criticism from the 1920s and modern...

Notes about Walter Lippman and democracy

8 Apr 2024 1 minute read 4 comments Vladan Lausevic

    Walter Lippmann's famous book, "Public Opinion" offers important insights into the complex relationship between democracy, media, human psychology, and the construction of reality. Lippmann's exploration is about the mechanisms through which publ...

Doubths on fair voting happening in Indian elections with voting systems being vulnerable to exploitation

29 Mar 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Greenchic

  Source EVM terminology during this time of the 2024 Central Government General Election season alludes to “Electoral Voting Machines”. As a Web3 person, I tend to link EVMs with “Ethereum Virtual Machines”, that’s why I am clarifying this point fo...

Should Citizens trust an EMV machine to record their votes truthfully when its source code remains unaudited?

21 Mar 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Greenchic

  Source India’s main elections are commencing next month with the world’s largest country by population going to cast their votes to cumulatively determine the party that would come to power at the center. This will also determine the Prime Ministe...

Notes about an Islamist party in Sweden

26 Aug 2023 3 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

During the 2022 general elections in Sweden, I wrote about some political parties outside the Swedish parliament. One of the parties I wrote about is Nyans (Shade): One party that is also making headlines at the moment is Shade (Nyans), with Islamist...

Going Indie - new voting behaviours in the USA

12 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

  In the 2022 midterms, independent voters significantly influenced election outcomes, defying the expectations of pollsters and pundits. Historically, independents swung between the two main parties in previous elections. However, in 2022, while the...

Democracy didn't "die in darkness", it cringed to death from WAPO's hypocrisy

5 Jul 2023 3 minute read 3 comments Kovichni

'Democracy dies in darkness' is the slogan of billionaire owned Jeff Bezos' Washington Post, but you would never have guessed it when reading some of the verbal diarrhea coming from his employees. I'm not even going to call them "journalists" and aft...