“Democracy is safe in Spain” almost sounds like a joke, though. We’ve had a terrible president for the past 8 years… (see the first footnote of Lawrence’s piece)
Democracy is safe in Spain?? Please look up 1 October 2017 and watch the footage. Literacy is no guarantee of democratic values: plenty of deeply antidemocratic ideas have been written, published and avidly read. Linking a country’s reading habits to the health of its democracy is quite a stretch.
“Democracy is safe in Spain” almost sounds like a joke, though. We’ve had a terrible president for the past 8 years… (see the first footnote of Lawrence’s piece)
And even so, democracy in Spain is not in danger
E.B. White (author of my FAVORITE children’s book, bar none) famously said,
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
I’m actually not convinced of that.
Democracy is safe in Spain?? Please look up 1 October 2017 and watch the footage. Literacy is no guarantee of democratic values: plenty of deeply antidemocratic ideas have been written, published and avidly read. Linking a country’s reading habits to the health of its democracy is quite a stretch.
How was this data collected? Surely some extrapolations going on. And is this all over Spain or are there hotspots? Cities v rural?