Posted on 05/06/2022 3:31:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
President Joe Biden once again started yelling and rambling about the future of democracy, misstating one of his favorite talking points about democracies backsliding around the world.
“Well guess what? In the last ten years there’s fifteen fewer democracies in the world,” Biden said, before raising his voice. “Fewer. Not More, FEWER!”
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Does that include the US?
I can’t take this crap anymore.
“Djuno zehrz Fif-feen few’r ‘mocracies inna werl???”
Including our own 🤪
Was the US one of them?
The State of Democracy
DEMOCRACY INDEX by Martin Armstrong,
Feb 11, 2022
"The Economist Democracy Index rates countries on the state of their governing system each year. In the latest installment published, 21 countries in the world were rated as “full democracies”, including all Scandinavian countries, several Western European nations as well as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Uruguay, Mauritius, Costa Rica, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. France and Portugal went back to flawed status in 2020 after having spent just one year in the highest section, and there they remained in 2021.
"Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon and Haiti were also demoted in the latest index, exiting the "hybrid regime" category and becoming authoritarian. The EIU stated that overall, democracy around the world hit an all-time low with the average score of countries sinking to 5.28 from 5.37 the previous year - an even larger drop than that recorded between 2019 and 2020. The countries rated most poorly were Afghanistan, Myanmar and North Korea.
No longer free countries - Canada - New Zealand - UK - Australia - United States
I smell BS.
1. Vrussia
2. Pennsylvanians.
3. Kelsey Wooshzz
4. Halway 5-0
9. Greenshland.
3. New Britzian
5. Appalshua
1. Arkansas Pass
14. Atlantic Ocean
22. Pacific Ocean
“Well guess what?”
How many Republics?
Apparently so
That chart gave New Zealand it’s highest rating. LOL
But did he lean into the mic and whisper? Now THAT’S effective public speaking!!
Is there trouble in the shire?
He did that little trick during the speech.
He is an embarrassment. 300 million people in this country, and we this corrupt vegetable as our figure head.
This chart shows the percent of people living in democracy increasing. the drop in 2019 is due to them reclassifying India.
Maybe Joe is confused and meant 15% fewer people under democracy.
"The rise of democracy has been one of the greatest collective human achievements of the last century, allowing large shares of the world's population to live in relative freedom and have the ability to alter the politics and society of their country. Has this expansion already peaked though?
"According to an analysis collated by Our World in Data, the share of the world living in either an electoral or liberal democracy was at it's highest in the year 2000 when the figure was at 54 percent. As our infographic illustrates, this took a steep dive in 2019, dropping from 50 percent down to just 32. While the fragility of democracy is also plain to see elsewhere in the chart, this is the most dramatic example over the assessed period.
"The main cause of this decrease is India and its downgrade by Freedom House to a 'partially free democracy' and to an 'electoral autocracy' by the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg since Modi's win in the country's 2019 election. The latter downgrade was justified by the alleged "increased pressure on human rights organizations, rising intimidation of academics and journalists, and a spate of bigoted attacks, including lynchings, aimed at Muslims" leading to a "deterioration of political rights and civil liberties".
"Democracy is fragile, and Freedom House warns that "the fall of India from the upper ranks of free nations could have a particularly damaging impact on global democratic standards."
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