Posted on 02/18/2023 10:03:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Economist Democracy Index rates countries on the state of their governing system each year. In the latest published edition, corresponding to the year 2022, only 24 countries in the world have been rated as 'full democracies', representing 8% of the world's population.
This category includes all Scandinavian countries, several Western European nations, as well as Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mauritius, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Latin American countries Uruguay, Costa Rica and Chile.
You will find more infographics at Statista
With an overall average score of 5.29 out of 10, almost the same as the previous year (5.28), the index shows a worldwide stagnation that experts did not expect, as it had been projected that after the pandemic more nations would find democratic stability.
It is estimated that 37% of the world's population lives under authoritarian rule (59 of the 167 countries and territories analyzed).
Russia recorded the largest democratic decline of all countries in the world, falling 22 places from the previous ranking to 146th.
Globally, the three worst-rated countries are Afghanistan, Myanmar and North Korea.
At the other extreme, Norway, New Zealand and Iceland are ranked as the most democratic countries in the world.
It is EC that is supposedly bringing you down. Orange Count can’t to enslave Alabama.
Thats the issue.
Canada would be on the list as a full democracy, but Alberta is a slave province with no rights.
… (T)he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.I think I’ll pass on the democracy thing and take the republic, thanks.
— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2
What will the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. …
— The Principles of Communism
… (I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …
— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”
Canada is a constitutional monarchy.
And please see post 4.
BTTT
Who cares what they think?
You’re right about it being a communist plank.
However,my point is that Orange county, New York and Washington DC would run the country if the US went full democracy.
Canada functions as a full democracy. We became separate fully in 1980, with the adoption of our Constitution.
So Wilson’s comparison of socialism to democracy (and vice versa) is correct, in this context.
And Canada still needs royal assent from its Governor General to pass laws. Not customary for him to deny assent, but it’s still a reserve power.
It is a forever unused power. PM Trueshit could legislate the UN to kill every Albertan and the GG would sign off on it.
We are not a democracy. Never have been.
We are also not a free country and haven’t been for a long time. We are told we are a free country. We are an orwellian socialist country trying to sell the citizens we’re a free democracy.
Public servants spend more and more time hiding things from us, while surveiling us, PRIVATE citizens. We are supposed to know far more about what public servants do and are doing, this is the opposite what’s occurring. The government however is not supposed to know everything or much of anything about us, private citizens. Yet this is the opposite of what’s occurring.
Sad, because if you don’t have a veto, you have a tyranny.
Three things that Elizabeth II should have denied assent to were the 1967 Abortion Act, the 1967 Sexual Offenses Act (which legalized homosexual acts between adults 21 and over) and the 2013 Marriages (Same-sex Couples) Act. JMHO of course.
See post 4. Basically the phrase “our democracy” is used by the Uniparty politicians in the Wilsonian vein.
“democracy” is a fallacy
Yup.👍
We need a non profit organization that is going to do a Republic index, which discounts democracies as not full republics.
We are not a democracy because we don’t want to be a democracy. This is a feature, meant to protect our liberties.
Who rates these?
You make a very good point that should be obvious enough for those who are willing to deal with the substance of the article.
As an AMerican who has long lived in Canada, I can say that I have a very high degree of confidence that the system has little to no actual vote fraud and that the gerrymandering is largely natural. The U.S. used to have a robust set of checks and balances that offset its deficiencies in that regard but they were gutted.
The point made upthread by one or two posters about the need for sn effective veto and the lack of one in Canada was a flaw from the beginning that has been exacerbated over time but is not great enough to offset the fraud factor.
Rd later.
Yeah, but Canada is totalitarian.
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