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Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

Is the U.S. No Longer One of the Top 20 Most Democratic Countries in the World?

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Source:     snopes.com
Publication Date:     16 January 2019 (used)
 Link: Is the U.S. No Longer One of the Top 20 Most Democratic Countries in the World?
Stephan:   Do you think the United States is the best democracy in the world? Do you think we lead the world in small "d" democratic governance? Sorry, since Trump was elected in 2016 we have dropped lower and lower on the list of most democratic countries. The truth is we are not even in the top 20. We are number 21. We are rated as an "impaired democracy." It's just like the claim you hear constantly reiterated that "we have the best healthcare in the world." In fact, we rank 37th. The constant repetition of lies about America that we tell ourselves is one of the strongest barriers blocking our improvement. There's not much incentive to get better when you think you are already the best.
Claim

The United States has “dropped off” a list of the 20 most democratic countries in the world.

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A well-shared post on the Facebook page for The Christian Left shows a chart titled “The Best and Worst Countries for Democracy” with a description indicating it demonstrates that the United States has fallen off the top 20 best countries.

The chart was taken from the Economist magazine’s annual Democracy Index report. Although no single body is in charge of officially ranking world democracies, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), “the research and analysis division of The Economist Group,” has issued such a ranking in 2006, 2008, and every year since 2010. The group uses multiple factors to assign each country a single score, which is used to rank countries comparatively by their level of democracy as well as classify them in categories ranging from “full democracy” to “authoritarian regime”:

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index is based […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 10:40 am

    I would certainly have to agree with their assessment because we have a leader (our president) who acts more like an authoritarian president with an attitude of a small child who can’t get his own way. I can picture him now as a child in a crib flailing his arms about whining that he wants something he cannot have and driving his parents crazy, except in this case, we, the citizens are the ones who are not able to charm this tantrum child so he will shut up. The consequences of his tantrums are tearing our country apart.