They have their Democracy Index and in a description for 2016 they say
>“Democracy is in trouble in the West, in the mature democracies of western Europe and the US, which are no longer obvious beacons for those striving for democracy in the nondemocratic world,” the EIU said.
Ofc it goes without saying that if Hillary won it would have been a shining example of one.
"Independent" media and rating agencies are making their own bed.
Anthony Bailey
I like how their "most democratic" country is a nation with a largely homogeneous population about a quarter of the size of the population of Florida that has a shitton of oil.
John Nelson
>"how to print your own magnet"
how the fuck does that fit with the rest of those topics?
Logan Williams
Oh please If we're a flawed democracy now then that means we were never a full democracy. The system never changed.
Jacob Brooks
what a dumb fuckin article. they're only saying this because their candidate lost. this has been happening for hundreds of years
that a sweet fuckin picture though
Justin Cooper
>magazine owned by Rothchilds
Jose Walker
>The Economist Group is owned by the Cadbury, Rothschild, Schroder, Agnelli and other family interests as well as a number of staff and former staff shareholders. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group#Ownership more globalist billionaires who are afraid the tide is turning against them, and using the power at their disposal to disseminate negative propaganda to demoralize democratically elected nationalist leaders
Anthony Robinson
The globalist cries about democracy as he works to undermine your democracy.
Easton Wilson
What turmoil was there at Tata? Because Carlson lost a game the other day?
Landon Adams
>According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the US has lost its status as a “full democracy” and is now what the research group calls a “flawed democracy,” as a result of an erosion of public trust in political institutions >No longer mindlessly believe political groups and obviously biased institutions. >No longer trust government and public institutions after years of being shat upon by them. >This means you're now not a full democracy but a flawed democracy.
Jaxon Ward
>wahhh wahhhh, its only full democracy when it's going my way, wahhh
Connor Williams
((((((((((Economist))))))))))
Grayson Cox
>Economist downgrades USA from "full democracy" >Economist downgrades >Economist The publication belongs to the Economist Group. It is 50% owned by the English branch of the Rothschild family and by the Agnelli family through its holding company Exor.
Blake Bennett
Since when were we a full democracy?
William Thomas
>Functioning of government >Russia 2.86 >Belarus 3.57 >Venezuela 3.93 >Poland 5.71 >Pakistan 5.71 >Mexico 6.07 >Botswana 7.14 >Singapore 7.50 >South Africa 8.21
Hudson Robinson
Do those criteria make it easier to be more democratic?
Juan Foster
Democracy is overrated
Bentley Baker
>Full Democracy I wasn't aware that there were still direct democracy states larger than the size of Rhode Island in the 21st century? Can someone educate me?
Leo Richardson
>from "full democracy" loving every laugh
Aiden Hernandez
It amazes me what a fool I've been. Trump has either brilliantly or by dumb luck made all the fucking wolves in sheep's clothing reveal themselves.
I knew NPR has an editorial position on topics and pushed narratives through it but this election made them go full retard. And the Economist was literally one of my favorite rags, where my only previous complaint was that the magazine had too much content to really digest in one week.
It is embarrassing to think I trusted these people even if I happened to disagree with them from time to time. Trump has saved me from fake news in a way that was so inconceivable as to not even have been a coherent thought in my mind.
Trump has done more to restore my faith in Democracy than anyone ever, and certainly more than I ever thought anyone could.
As an atheist I have no qualms in saying, God Bless you Mr Trump.
Brandon Williams
I'd rather have. Republic than a democracy.
The economist is starting to shill where they've never shilled before
Matthew Sanders
But we're a republic. We've never BEEN a "full democracy"
Hudson Young
>Full Democracy Good goy states that elect globalist/leftist leaders >Flawed Democracy Bad goy states that elect nationalist/right-wing leaders
Liam Scott
Note that The Economist is not just all of a sudden saying this because of Donald Trump. It's a lot more complicated than just one election cycle.
I advise everyone to actually read the report itself, instead of relying on a ZeroHedge article.
>smaller, homogenous community that overwhelmingly relies on the same resources Yes, actually.
Ryan Jenkins
That's actually an interesting point and addition, substantially changes the tone of this piece. Thanks Netherlands.
Kayden Clark
I understand that those criteria help in governing a country, but how does is help make a country more democratic, purely based on those facts?
Saudi Arabia, Qatar or the UAE rely on resources even more + have a small, incredibly homogenous population – yet they don't have a democracy.
Carter Mitchell
How dare you two change the narrative reeeee
David King
He's being silly. The only thing required to grasp "The majority wins" is basic math, which granted might be asking a lot of the typical person in today's world of alternate facts.
Samuel Green
>its only democracy when the "right" people win!
Gabriel Brown
We're a Republic, though...
Adrian Wood
Why are liberals crying over the death of democracy when they, themselves, choked democracy in its crib in the Middle-East earlier in this decade by not intervening to help in the Arab Spring?
I don't get how you can think democracy to be the greatest thing in the world but still refuse to export it.
Hudson Turner
LePenn picture in OP gives me a chub.
I want to hold her an tell her it will all be alright.
William Moore
Islam is better according to them
Carter Baker
USA hasnt been a democracy for a long long long long time
USA is what I would call , a judeo/secularist dictatorship
Blake Moore
>The publication belongs to the Economist Group. It is 50% owned by the English branch of the Rothschild family
Thomas Butler
Sup Forums when people mention the 3 million hillary vote advantage: >UH, EXCUSE ME? We are a REPUBLIC, not a DEMOCRACY, DURHH
This thread: >WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE'RE NOT A DEMOCRACY!??!?!?!!?!? (((ECONOMCMIST))))
Juan Adams
good
so they'll upgrade us after we audit the FED
Nathaniel Scott
No one on either side wanted to get bogged down in another Iraq or Afghanistan
Asher Murphy
>nobody can point to a state where Clinton won the popular votes but Trump won the electoral
Nathan Morris
lol didn't they or someone else say North Carolina technically wasn't a democracy anymore after the bathroom shit?
Evan Ramirez
But the USA never has been a true democracy
Julian Peterson
I don't think waiting for dictatorships to inevitably collapse and islamic states to rise from their ashes is preferable.
Jace Howard
They also list Canada at have a 10/10 in civil liberties, yet we don't have free speech
Leo Cruz
The EU was never democratic. It was formed in reaction to the rise of Hitler. It was designed with a "democratic deficit" in mind.
Eli Baker
We have never been a democracy.
We are a constitutional republic.
Connor Martinez
Well, the majority of american citizens voted for Hillary, right? 'merican 'mocracy I gues...
Joshua Bailey
What's Australia's rating, considering it bans everything on God's Green Earth?
Sebastian Robinson
i thought america was a "civil oligarchy" or whatever they called it. remember that study that came out a few years ago that everyone was creaming themselves over?
Angel White
(((The Economist))) can fuck right off.
Connor Lee
In a country of over 330 million 3 million is nothing but a drop in the bucket. Fuck the criminal Hillary and her idiotic supporters.
Levi Gonzalez
Just so everybody here knows there's a good reason The Economist does not credit the names of authors who write the articles. It's because they are all young 20ish hipster faggots you would not in a million years take any economic advice from.
Sup Forumsacks who wish to be informed beyond reading shitposts here can always look up Oxford and other university political journals into sci-hub such as Oxford's Foreign Policy Analysis journal which is really good in dropping redpills because it's all data driven and peer reviewed, so no bullshit is allowed.
Julian Brown
You've never actually read The Economist, have you?
Brandon Cruz
I use to love the economist for its classical liberal stance, but its so fucking biased and low-key socialist these days
Landon Hughes
The Economist has been a puppet for the worldwide banking cartel since I can remember. They are globalists. They are irrelevant now.
James Kelly
democracy is pretty cucked anyway. I'd be completely okay with trump putting the marxist piece of trash known as the constitution through the shredder and installing himself king.
Brody Wood
So Obongo was who destroy democracy
Grayson Powell
>South Africa above Russia, Poland, and Singapore
O I am laughing
James Lopez
CONFIRMED
US IS NOW A PEDOCRACY
WIVES CAN NOW BE ACQUIRED AT YOUR LOCAL LOLIE DISTRIBUTION CENTER
HAIL GENERAL KING LORD EMPEROR SENPAI LORD KING GOD PEPE
Blake Walker
...
Jaxson Morris
>Not using the unedited pic
Dominic Cook
>implying we were ever a full democracy We're a democratic representative Republic. The globalists keep pushing the direct democracy meme because then they can just flood a place with poor migrants and subvert the democratic process as long as they keep up with wedge issues and gibmedats. A direct democracy is a hell hole. The cities would control the entire country, and we would devolve into a feudal system within decades. A representative Republic has flaws, but the founding fathers themselves said that we should purge our politicians every 200 years. The American system is supposed to have a built in corruption core purge as long as we stick to the constitution. That's why the globalists attack the constitution.
Logan Richardson
oy, Poland is just too intolerant
Jayden Wood
Russia on suicide watch
Wyatt Gomez
>Democracy is in trouble, in the mature democracies of western Europe and the US >...because it's not working in our favour.
Luis Long
>The United States >Democracy
The Founding Fqthers hated democracy. They consider it mob rule and the government that killed Socrates.
That's why we're a constitutional federal republic.
Carson Lopez
Is the Economist owned by the same jews who write for the Financial Times? I swear to god their writing style and political agenda are exactly the same.
Its summed up beautifully in that zerohedge article:
>They — particularly the Economist‘s American readers — trust it because they think it knows more than they do; this is its entire appeal. They even get a sick thrill being talked down to by a dirty old aristocratic prig. For Americans in particular, accustomed to the lifeless, dumbed-down, lowest-common-denominator prose in their own media, reading The Economist is its own reward, giving the American subscriber the sense not only that they’re smarter than the average Time subscriber, but that it even makes them vaguely decadent, in a literary-port-sipping sort of way. They become smarter by osmosis simply by being in the imagined drawing room of The Economist‘s wit-slinging editorial offices.
Bentley Bailey
They're free-trade, and Trump isn't.
Liam Reyes
That's putting it lightly. Market fundamentalist is more apt.
Lincoln Allen
I didn't read the zerohedge article but I cannot stand people who presume to know others' inner mental states. I didn't read the Economist to feel smugly superior or to act as some kind of signal to other people. I'm not a fucking narcissist.
>Ofc it goes without saying that if Hillary won it would have been a shining example of one.
Actually shill, we went below the Democracy threshold in 2006 during Obama, and Hillary wouldn't have improved it. Trump is just nosediving it.
Kevin Young
I mean 2016, fuck 1s.
Hudson Jones
It is ideal for people to be able to trust what their government says, also ideally your government would never lie to it's people, skew information for it's own purposes, or be beholden to groups that aren't it's citizens. When this failed, we had journalists do the job, ideally they were to report only facts and tell the truth - which of course is not the case since they skew facts, report fully with bias, and do cover-up information. The only reason the US has been downgraded to a flawed democracy is because people are allowed to talk about the flaws.
WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY. WE ARE A REPUBLIC WITH DEMOCRATIC TENDENCIES
Lucas Mitchell
I had to stop reading (((the economist))) in 2014 for their bullshit. Just look at this ffs, implying that S. Africa's government is better than Signapore's...
Liam Smith
>(((Economist)))
Alexander Wood
I think everyone here is of the consensus that The Economist is vapid horseshit.
Joseph Williams
It's not just simple globalist jews, it's the fucking Rothschilds.
Andrew Jackson
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Angel Ortiz
We're not a true democracy though, we're a democratic republic.
Joshua Phillips
This doesnt put the blame on the people but on the institutions that have failed to be trustworthy. Whats is the problem? You yourself are explaining exactly why the status changed..When people feel they cant trust institutions is the time when a country's democracy becomes unstable.. I dont understand what you are mad about.
Owen Carter
(((Economist)))
Jacob Ward
(((Ecomomist)))
Brody Howard
>United States is "full democracy" >Election is held in the same way it always has been >Candidate they don't like wins >United States Democracy is now flawed
wew lad.
Juan Sanchez
hive mind
Evan James
>Economist downgrades USA from "full democracy" to "flawed democracy" Because it wasn't really a full democracy. It's a republic. No amount of Jewish lying (lying until it becomes truth) will ever change that.
Grayson Nelson
Good. Democracy is nothing but mob rule. As a Constitutional Republic we hold that the Individual and natural law hold primacy over any elected ruler or group.
Nathaniel Jackson
The writers in this disgustingly globalist rag must be shitting themselves by now. They were lobbying against Brexit with ridiculous propaganda and absolutely laughable texts and clips. And before they got over that they were hit by Trump with his protectionist ideas which are 100% antipodal to everything TE stands for.
If 2017 keeps on delivering as 2016 did then they might not survive the [current year]. Love this timeline.
Caleb Ward
It doesn't solely based on those facts. He's saying its easier to be more democratic with those facts
James Reyes
So when can we go full bane and kill eveyone in DC
Nathan Cruz
'Functioning of Government' refers to the effectiveness of the governments' plans/actions. So the chart is actually pretty accurate: Russia hasn't been able to spark economic innovation in years, while countries like Singapore and Poland are doing way better in that regard.
Cameron Murphy
The government doesn't "spark" innovation.
Dylan Turner
The Globalist butthurt about Trump
What's new?
Connor Stewart
>It was caused by...a continued erosion of trust in government So we're not a democracy because we don't blindly follow our leaders?
Michael Stewart
What is South Africa doing that is "sparking innovation"?