U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog

And a few days after that, PragerU releases a video titled "Why democracies will fail eventually", which tells its viewers that democracy creates "moral decadence", and now a "strong leader" is needed to fix the issue, who might have told some noble lies like a parent tells their kid the stork brings the children when they're not ready for reality. And the video ends with a "Roman salute" over "God Bless America".

"You’ve only been a democracy for only 50 years. Not unless you don't count black people... you are nearly as mature democracy as Botswana." - Lukas Matsson (Swedish guy) on Succession

We should have never had the status given we still use slaves.

The US is one of the most watered down democracies, even for a liberal democracy (which is severely watered down). Its a system where the needs of the many are filtered through the needs of the few. We dont need to "fix" liberal democracy, we need workers democracy (syndicalism).

"Could lose"? We are long past this point. When you can chose between two parties and they try to manipulate the election as hard as they can, then that's a zombie democracy at best. And now? The president stands above the law. He can fire people illegally. He can disable law enforcement. Democracy in the US is gone. Hopefully only temporarily. Now it's up to people to act, take their rogue government down and repair what can be repaired.

Damn. When Sweden (or any Nordic country) says it, it really hits hard.

America deserves to be recognized as a Third World Country. I say this as an American, it's deplorable how the citizens are treated.

America is lost. Do not let Elon near your country.

Could? ....should.

Has lost*

Anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Because I’m not.

Just publish an addendum and yank it. The great experiment failed. We’re cooked, chat.

Could? Do it now.

It lost that status a long time ago. We keep the veneer of it intact, though.

New banana republic just dropped!

We haven't had a vote on the shape or priorities of our economy since 1980. This is an economic dictatorship, and has been longer than most of us here have been alive.

We just get a vote on how/if to address the social wedge symptoms that economy either causes or exacerbates.

And only IF addressing them won't meaningfully harm quarterly earnings expectations for our sociopath class. Example: you know what would drastically reduce the number of abortions without any kind of ban? A living wage that can support a family. But that would cut into corporate metastasis and is therefore a non-starter by either party in anything more than rhetoric.

You can have scapegoating(R) or affirmation ribbons(D), so long as you vote for for profit prisons, legal murder for profit, millions of Americans dying of exposure on the streets, crumbling commons, public education in utter ruin.... Freedom!

sorry for derailing a little:

why is there multiple links to choose from as a source? What exactly created that choosable format - are they automated, is this some system like groundnews or something?

Could? Lmao. Don't you need laws and elected officials to count as a democracy to begin with?

1. Democracy isn't a status given by some watchdog.
2. Democracy is shit