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> Handing more & more power to a president is exactly how all of the other presidential systems in the world have collapsed into autocracy. Uhh, what? All of?
by yencabulator 2y ago
> Handing more & more power to a president is exactly how all of the other presidential systems in the world have collapsed into autocracy.
Uhh, what? All of? There are 28 countries considered more democratic than the USA, and many of them have presidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
- hash872 2y agoI think I understand the confusion- awkward sentence construction on my part. I am noting that all of the presidential systems that have collapsed so far have followed the exact same pattern. I am not sayin that all presidencies are autocracies, but of the presidencies that have already become autocracies, they all granted more & more executive power to the president due to real or imagined 'emergencies'. I am not Juan Linz and I do not think having a president means we will automatically become an autocracy, but am more saying 'hey this is like the main danger to watch out for'