19 Dec 2022 5:12 am
U.S. remains a ‘flawed democracy’ in annual rankings
Pay **** attention white supremacist nationalist assholes, pluralism is essential for a fully functioning democracy. Not that we didn't already know that the right in this country (which over the last six years has become the inane MAGA/Q-ANON/alt-right) has no interest in real democracy. What rhe right wants is autocracy and christian theocracy. These are the antithesis of democracy.“Pluralism and competing alternatives are essential for a functioning democracy, but differences of opinion in the US have hardened into political sectarianism and institutional gridlock,” they wrote, explaining why the U.S. score for government functionality had hit a new low point.
Of course they are.The highest rated democracies, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index are Norway, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark.