> Democracy is a bad ideal that is much inferior for economic prosperity than one party states/kingdoms like Singapore, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Qatar who have a

> Democracy is a bad ideal that is much inferior for economic prosperity than one party states/kingdoms like Singapore, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Qatar who have a high degree of economic freedom Er, right. You're surely aware that most one-party states have very little in the way of economic freedom AND have a high degree of corruption? Not to mention that economic freedom, for many people, is less important than a decent human rights record. And while neither the EU nor the US are perfect in this record, they're still considerably better than bastions of economic freedom like Qatar.