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Lebanon’s experience reveals the discord between the psychology of crowds and the goals of the political elites who rally behind them – a conflict that can also be seen in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Tunisia’s Sidi Bouzid, and Tripoli, Libya, where crowds have stormed the parliament building several times in the last few months.
This discord is threatening to derail these countries’ burgeoning democratic processes, owing to growing competition between what Le Bon called the “sovereignty of the crowds” and the sovereignty of political elites.
Unlike Eastern Europe in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, the crowds of the Arab Spring formed on the Internet before hitting the streets – the first movement of its kind.
If detected early enough, solutions can be found to diffuse tempestuous crowds before they inundate fragile new institutions.
He is a skilled rabble-rouser, whose inflammatory rhetoric against immigrants and refugees – “We’re going to build that wall high and we’re going to build it tall!”– drives the crowds at Trump rallies into a frenzy.
When a company becomes more competitive, it crowds out its rivals; they get nothing in return.
Genuinely collective decision-making can be a painfully difficult process, but, in government as elsewhere, there is wisdom in crowds.
Even as cheering crowds in Sirte and Tripoli were rejoicing at the despot’s death, others voiced doubts over the manner of his humiliating end.
In 2008, the Great Depression narrative was being recycled everywhere, with all its colorful stories of financial panic and angry crowds forming around closed banks.
Two decades ago, the Berlin Wall was torn asunder by jubilant crowds.
These favorable effects are directly relevant to balancing the primary adverse effects usually associated with a fiscal deficit: that government borrowing crowds out private capital formation; that higher interest payments generally require higher taxes or reductions in spending on defense and nondefense programs; that a budget deficit implies an unwanted increase in aggregate demand when the economy is at full employment; and that a higher debt ratio leaves less capacity for increased emergency government spending.
It was not easy to persuade my hosts that, at such an historic moment, the place of the German Chancellor could only be in our old capital, among the celebrating crowds .
So I flew to Berlin, but before I addressed the crowds from the balustrade of Schoeneberg's Town Hall, I received a call from Mikhail Gorbachev.
On the other hand, it crowds out virtues that have no economic utility, like heroism, honor, generosity, and pity.
Trump argued in speeches before large crowds that Curiel could not be fair to him because he is “a Mexican” (Curiel was born in Indiana).
They are hoping that Americans will forget all the cocksure predictions of a military walkover and cheering crowds lobbing flowers at US and British troops.
Economists agree that, at full employment, higher government spending crowds out private spending.
For the moment, however, nobody can predict whether Sanders will be able to convert the impressive crowds he has been drawing into electoral strength, or even how long he will remain in fashion.
Thresholds also occur in social systems: think of fads or, more seriously, riot behavior in crowds.
Huge crowds formed at every immunization site, standing in line in the hot sun, eager to receive protection against the deadly disease.
Crowds may not.
Putin's youth, his energy, his ability to talk in a language crowds understand, are the visible signs of the change he seems to promise.
Like Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, he started drawing large crowds by breaking ranks with his party’s mainstream.
But, from the moment that the Pope arrived in Scotland, he was overwhelmed by enthusiastic crowds of well-wishers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
I doubt that the crowds in Chemnitz hunting down anyone who looked vaguely non-European were especially concerned with matters of faith or culture.
Another line of suspicion against public lending is that it crowds out private investment.
The risk is that, as bad politics crowds out good economics, popular anger and frustration will rise, making politics even more toxic.
Crowds rose against Napoleon’s French forces in 1798, against the monarchy in 1881-1882, against British dominance in 1919 and 1952, against Sadat in 1977, and against Mubarak in 1986.
The crowds were enormous and peaceful, not only in Cairo, the historic node for protest, but in all of Egypt’s cities.
Mr Kuchma publicly denounced the crowds of protesters against him as “a herd under various flags”.
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