How do you know? How can their citizens know? They don’t have stellar democracy grades from The Economist’s index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_

How do you know? How can their citizens know? They don’t have stellar democracy grades from The Economist’s index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index and both seem worse off in the last ten years than the ten years before.