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US has become a “flawed democracy”
- mtgx 10y agoAs opposed to 4 years ago, or 14 years ago, when the U.S. government was working "for the people" ? Hasn't Congress been at below 15% trust for at least a decade?
- gus_massa 10y ago> Although its score did not fall by much—from 8.05 in 2015 to 7.98 in 2016—it was enough for it to slip just below the 8.00 threshold for a “full democracy”. It's a arbitrary index with a made up threshold. Nothing to see here. Do they have an error interval for each number? Is the error smaller than the difference between them?