in the afterermath, willll we e more democraracy?social mededia are fragmenting society into a mass of individual opinions. and the creation of a mass is the precondition foror the emergence of autocratic rulers in elections. i am thinking quite specifically of the united states. consider the riots in charlottesville, the endorsement of violence. it is frfrightening, and it is e work o of social mededia. the momore chatter and outra,, thmorere mon can b be de. what's your opinion? >> do you agree? isisocial media a threat to democracy? tell us on facebook. follow us at "dw global society." and that was this week's democracy special. thanks for joining us. don't forget, we enjoy hearing from you. write to us at global3000@dw.com or on facebook, dw global society. see you next time. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] (e(exciting worlrld music) (electrtronic music)) (foreign speaking)

we don't have proportional representation, which is a staggerining contradiction wiwith democraracy just like the way we run our businesses is, and secondly, we've got tweedledum and tweedledee as the two parties, who exchange positions every few years, anand we sit there, and with each convention, like the last week and today--by the way, the reason there aren't more people here is they're at home watching barack obama, right, so tough competition for me. so we have to do something to break out of a system that doesn't allow minority parties to have a voice the way they do in all of our allied countries and to have more than the choice of two. you know, if you went into your local supermarket and there were two kinds of soup, chicken and rice, and two companies that made them, campbell's and progresso, you'd feelel as thouh this was not a very good store. you'd like more choice. we want 27 kinds of toothpaste andnd 16 kinds of soup andnd 12 kinds off ice cream, but two parties is enough. what is that? what is that? why two? what is--their magic number? it's a strange country. doesn't wa