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> Honestly it’s super depressing and makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy (inverted corporate democracy perhaps?) By international standard
by lostlogin 3y ago
> Honestly it’s super depressing and makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy (inverted corporate democracy perhaps?)
By international standards, US ‘democracy’ doesn’t get rated that highly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#:~:text=The%20Democracy%20Index%20published%20by,democratic%20rights%20and%20democratic%20institutions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Inde....
- virtualritz 3y ago> By international standards, US ‘democracy’ doesn’t get rated that highly. For starters, it's a two party system. Sharp tongues would point out that this is double the amount of political parties you'd "find" in Russia or China ...