You can’t “defend democracy” by destroying democracy. You can’t “fight election interference” by interfering with elections. You either have freedom of speech and fair elections — or you don’t. And the Romanian people deserve both. 🇷🇴

“Almost every democracy is under stress, independent of technology,” said Darrell M. West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “When you add disinformation on top of that, it just creates many opportunities for mischief.” https://t.co/pkR4hLkEeM

🧵🧵How Norm Eisen’s 2025 Democracy Playbook Plans to takeover for the Midterms Without the Presidency What happens if Democrats + globalist NGOs lose the White House? Nothing changes. Because they’ve spent years building a machine that runs WITHOUT needing the presidency. Here’s how they plan to rule through lawfare, NGOs, media + states + their plans for the 2026 midterms. (Yes I read the playbook)

🫵 Follow https://t.co/swt2rcCJUv »The #ruleoflaw# is #democracy’s# last defence — that’s why #populists# attack it: It’s no accident that from #France# to #Wisconsin#, the #radicalright# seek to undermine faith in the judiciary.« https://t.co/trXijNBTAs #FactCrisis# #Populism# #Popu…#

i think we should give up the charade of upholding democracy. both sides want democracy only when they are not in power and fascism when they ARE in power. One should just accept and normalize this thought. There is no need to expect democracy at all when it is just an excuse. one should accept and understand that fascism is how it is and always will be.

斯坦福大学胡佛研究所最近的一期政治研究非常有意思，主题是： 流动性民主（liquid democracy） 流动性，是不是和币圈熟悉的词有点像？ 是的，这个研究很大程度就是受币圈各种流动性投票机制影响，尤其是以太的质押投票。 这个研究就是以币圈的流动性投票为案例，来探讨这样的方式是否能改善美国的民主机制。 以下是全文： 托马斯·杰斐逊曾著名地指出，一个信息充分的公民社会不仅是抵抗暴政的最佳防线，也是动态民主的核心。今天的美国民主运作与国家成立时类似，公民定期直接投票选举代表，这些代表代替他们在州、地方或联邦层面做出决策。 但如果作为选民的你认为自己信息不足呢？今天，你唯一的选择就是仍然投票，投票前变得更加知情，或者完全放弃投票。但还有一个值得探索的选项——液态民主。液态民主是一个可以追溯到19世纪的概念，但近年来随着我们生活的数字化，它开始获得更多关注。 在液态民主中，选民保留自己投票的选项，但那些认为自己信息不足的人可以将自己的投票权委托给其他人来代表自己投票。这是一种代议制民主和直接民主的混合形式。数字技术使得在大规模上构建这一系统成为可能。 今天，各种组织都在积极尝试不同方式将决策权委托给他人。像BlackRock、State Street和Vanguard这样的主要投资公司现在允许股东通过区块链的投票选择程序委托他们的投票权。基于代币的系统允许人们以数字方式投票、买卖或借出投票权，并将投票权委托给他人。 包括Anthropic、Meta和OpenAI在内的人工智能公司正在进行公共实验，将决策权委托给随机抽取的公民大会，为AI聊天机器人的言论和行为提供指导。液态民主的现实应用可能具有潜力。 例如，在加利福尼亚，公民投票提案为选民提供了在立法程序之外共同做决定的机会，但这些提案的数量可能非常庞大，使得选民很难对每一项提案都保持知情。许多选民选择不对许多提案投票，或者投票有些随机。液态民主可以让选民将投票权委托给更有信息的人，这可能有助于推动好的提案并否决不好的提案。 尽管委托投票的想法在现实世界中听起来很有吸引力，特别是如果这能带来一个信息更加充分、更多公民参与的民主社会，但理论研究也表明，这种方式也可能面临重大挑战。为了弄清楚液态民主是否能有效运作以及如何更好地运作，我们需要在现实世界中高风险的环境下进行测试，看看实际效果如何。 幸运的是，区块链初创公司正在积极进行这些实验，我们可以从他们的经验中学习。其中一个最大的担忧是防止过多的投票权集中在少数几个人手中，这些人被称为“超级代表”。即使选民能够重新收回他们的投票权，这仍然存在风险——即将过多的、无法追责的权力集中在少数人手中。 找到合适的代表也是一个挑战。就像在美国选举中决定谁应该成为下任总统、参议员、州议员、州长、警长、县书记或市长一样，做出知情决定是非常困难的。而找到一个有足够信息的代表来委托投票可能同样困难，这也可能解释了液态民主的另一个重大挑战。 我们的研究是第一个在政治学中利用区块链中液态民主自然实验的项目，收集了关于液态民主和投票的全面数据，涵盖了超过250,000名选民和1,700多个提案，涉及18个最大的基于以太坊的去中心化自治组织（DAO）。 我们发现液态民主既有挑战，也有希望。首先，在使用液态民主的区块链组织中，只有17%的投票权被委托，这与许多地方选举的投票率相似。而那些拥有委托权的人往往未能投票，委托人的参与率约为33%。这指示出了一个潜在的问题。 即使提供了更多灵活的投票选项，许多人仍然选择不参与。整体投票参与率低也导致了第二个问题。投票权最终集中在少数几个超级代表手中，如果选民没有密切监控他们的代表，这可能会威胁到这些项目的去中心化。 但也有一些希望的迹象。我们发现，委托投票更多是自下而上而非自上而下。较小的代币持有者更倾向于委托投票，而较大的代币持有者则不太愿意委托，这与液态民主的希望一致，即能激励那些原本参与动机较弱的人仍然让他们的投票被计入。 那些具有较好参与记录的代表会吸引更多投票，表明代币持有者并非完全随机地委托他们的投票。此外，有证据表明，周到的设计可以帮助解决这些挑战。创建便捷的在线用户界面，并提供关于潜在代表的信息，包括他们的投票立场和记录，可以显著增加参与度，委托率总体提高了约25%。 世界正经历着巨大的技术变革，认为我们不能利用这些变化来改善我们的治理方式将是奇怪的。但挑战在于找出哪些想法是真正的进步，哪些是错误的建议。尽管液态民主的未来以及它在现实世界公民参与中的适用性暂时不确定，但显而易见的是，液态民主和委托投票的概念在数字时代可能变得越来越重要。 无论是金融机构、在线平台，还是可能的在线治理，液态民主提供了既充满希望的可能性，也提供了关于将民主理想转化为实际现实时面临的挑战的警示。

Since WWII, Germany's liberal democracy has held. Now, it's on the brink. The government censors, spies on, and persecutes critics. And, today, it laid the groundwork to ban the nation's most popular political party, the AfD. My exclusive interview with one of its leaders. https://t.co/K6zxu4j2YQ

Epic summary. I’m proud to say I first broke the annual Norm Eisen Democracy Playbook domestic color revolution guide and brought it to national prominence in a super viral piece 5 years ago for Revolver. I’ll be covering the 2025 guide on stream tonight for my X subs! https://t.co/2T4cipKXGK

The session is significant because it will revive the Congress party, thereby strengthening our country's democracy. It will have a pivotal impact at the grassroots level. This reorganisation will benefit the party at the national level. The AICC has already prepared guidelines for empowering the party at district and booth levels. : CWC Special Invitee and MP Shri @kodikunnilMP On Extended CWC Meeting 📍 Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Election Commission has surrendered to BJP. Rajeev Kumar has mortgaged the country's democracy in the greed for post after retirement‼️ @ArvindKejriwal #DeshKaSabseBadaGundaKaun# https://t.co/93YRC9030o

🇫🇷 Le Pen banned from election 🇧🇷 Bolsonaro banned from election 🇷🇴 Georgescu election win cancelled 🇩🇪 AFD designated as extremist group All in the name of protecting democracy

That time NBC News interviewed people on the streets of Crimea and “every one of them” wanted to be part of Russia. Why does Ukraine continue to oppose democracy for Crimea? https://t.co/QP4yRLhZQy

The AfD is now the most popular party. For the first time in history, the most popular party is denied a government function. The establishment kiIIed democracy. Fascism has returned under the guise of “Anti-Fascism”. 🇩🇪 https://t.co/tLFJYfCRcg

"Milei and MAGA are fellow travelers." At the heart of both movements is the belief that power belongs to the people—not the bureaucrats. By embracing democracy over bureaucracy, both movements aim to unleash economic growth. https://t.co/kCBWRlAVbg

Elon Musk: If the bureaucracy is preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then we live in a bureaucracy, not a democracy. “The President will make these executive orders, which are very sensible and good for the country, but then they don't get implemented. For example, the President issued an executive order saying we need to stop taking taxpayer money and paying for luxury hotels for illegal immigrants, which makes no sense. Obviously, people do not want their tax dollars going to fund high-end hotels for illegals. And yet, they were still doing that, even as late as last week. And so, we went in there and said this is in violation of the presidential executive order and that it needs to stop. One of the biggest functions of the DOGE team is just making sure that the presidential executive orders are actually carried out. The president is the elected representative of the people, so he's representing the will of the people. If the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy.” Fox News, February 18, 2025

Just a reminder the architect of these protests is Norm Eisen and he told us this was the playbook in 2019. In Norm Eisen’s “Democracy Playbook” (specifically The Democracy Playbook: Preventing and Reversing Democratic Backsliding, originally published by the Brookings Institution in 2019 and updated in later versions), civil protest is framed as a legitimate and essential component of democratic resilience, particularly in the face of authoritarian tendencies. Key Themes from the Playbook Regarding Civil Protest: 1. Nonviolent Protest as a Democratic Tool •Eisen emphasizes peaceful mass mobilization as a key mechanism for resisting authoritarian encroachments. •He draws on examples from Eastern Europe, the U.S., and Latin America to show how civil protests can defend democratic norms, especially when institutions are under threat. 2. Strategic Protest to Pressure Institutions •The playbook encourages strategically timed protests to coincide with political decisions (e.g., Supreme Court rulings, elections, executive overreach) in order to pressure courts, legislatures, and public opinion. 3. Coordination with Civil Society & Media •Protests are seen as most effective when coordinated with civil society organizations, legal advocacy groups, and sympathetic media. •The document urges forming alliances with NGOs, academics, and international observers to amplify protest messaging. 4. Framing & Messaging •Eisen stresses that successful protests need a clear moral message, emphasizing “defense of democracy,” “protection of rights,” or “constitutional accountability.” •Framing should avoid violent rhetoric and instead focus on inclusion, lawfulness, and democratic integrity. 5. “Pre-Bunking” and Countering Authoritarian Narratives •The playbook suggests that activists prepare preemptive narratives to counter expected government backlash (e.g., labeling protests as “unpatriotic” or “insurrectionist”). •Encourages “pre-bunking” through media campaigns and grassroots education. Tell me how that’s not the literal playbook for these Tesla protests?