> We have the closest thing to a democracy that any country has. Your overall point is reasonable, but this is a reach there are many countries now that are at

> We have the closest thing to a democracy that any country has. Your overall point is reasonable, but this is a reach there are many countries now that are at least as democratic as the US by any reasonable definition, and some pretty supportable arguments that some of them are meaningfully more democratic. It's not that interesting to argue about I think though, because the differences are pretty small, and there is a huge gulf between all of the democratic countries and the non-democratic ones.