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General Category => World News => Topic started by: 240B on February 10, 2022, 06:30:42 pm
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Bloomberg
Alex Millson
09 Feb 2022
(Bloomberg) -- The percentage of the world’s population living under some sort of democracy tumbled last year to 45.7% from 49.4% a year earlier according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2021. Of the 167 territories surveyed, just 21 were deemed to be full democracies, representing 6.4% of the world’s population, while 53 fell into the “flawed democracies” category. Topping
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Bloomberg? :silly:
The top 7 listed are ones I always had put in the "socialist column"
What Michael Bloomberg, and Joe Conservative thinks are not necessariy the same thing
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The world doesn't need democracies, it needs representative republics.
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People really should try to avoid playing formalistic word games. A republic such as the U.S. is "democratic" in the primary sense of the word because the bulk of the citizens in the country have a direct role in selecting the ongoing governments in the country. That is what makes it "democratic" and is, in general, the fundamental criterion for determining whether a given country is "democratic" or not.
To try and play games with terminology by insisting that "we aren't a democracy, we're a republic" is silly, in general, because on the level of this fundamental question its a distinction without meaning.
To say that there is a difference between direct democracies and representative democracies is true enough, but in either case, the common element is that both are "democratic" in the fundamental sense that the citizens play a meaningful role in determining who exercises the powers of government.
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The world doesn't need democracies, it needs representative republics.
It's not a "One Size Fits All" thing. Democracy isn't for everyone, I even wonder if it's for here anymore.
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It's not a "One Size Fits All" thing. Democracy isn't for everyone, I even wonder if it's for here anymore.
Clearly. The Bush effort to make certain middle eastern countries "democracies" wasn't successful.