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.
en.wikipedia.org
zerohedge.com
"Independent" media and rating agencies are making their own bed.
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.
>"how to print your own magnet"
how the fuck does that fit with the rest of those topics?
Oh please
If we're a flawed democracy now then that means we were never a full democracy.
The system never changed.
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
>magazine owned by Rothchilds
>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
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
The globalist cries about democracy as he works to undermine your democracy.
What turmoil was there at Tata? Because Carlson lost a game the other day?
>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.
>wahhh wahhhh, its only full democracy when it's going my way, wahhh
((((((((((Economist))))))))))
>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.
Since when were we a full democracy?
>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
Do those criteria make it easier to be more democratic?
Democracy is overrated
>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?
>from "full democracy"
loving every laugh
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.
I'd rather have. Republic than a democracy.
The economist is starting to shill where they've never shilled before
But we're a republic. We've never BEEN a "full democracy"
>Full Democracy
Good goy states that elect globalist/leftist leaders
>Flawed Democracy
Bad goy states that elect nationalist/right-wing leaders
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.
>www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/01/daily-chart-20
>www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=DemocracyIndex2016
>smaller, homogenous community that overwhelmingly relies on the same resources
Yes, actually.
That's actually an interesting point and addition, substantially changes the tone of this piece.
Thanks Netherlands.
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.
How dare you two change the narrative reeeee
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.
>its only democracy when the "right" people win!
We're a Republic, though...
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.
LePenn picture in OP gives me a chub.
I want to hold her an tell her it will all be alright.
Islam is better according to them
USA hasnt been a democracy for a long long long long time
USA is what I would call , a judeo/secularist dictatorship
>The publication belongs to the Economist Group. It is 50% owned by the English branch of the Rothschild family
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))))
good
so they'll upgrade us after we audit the FED
No one on either side wanted to get bogged down in another Iraq or Afghanistan
>nobody can point to a state where Clinton won the popular votes but Trump won the electoral
lol didn't they or someone else say North Carolina technically wasn't a democracy anymore after the bathroom shit?
But the USA never has been a true democracy
I don't think waiting for dictatorships to inevitably collapse and islamic states to rise from their ashes is preferable.
They also list Canada at have a 10/10 in civil liberties, yet we don't have free speech
The EU was never democratic. It was formed in reaction to the rise of Hitler. It was designed with a "democratic deficit" in mind.
We have never been a democracy.
We are a constitutional republic.
Well, the majority of american citizens voted for Hillary, right? 'merican 'mocracy I gues...
What's Australia's rating, considering it bans everything on God's Green Earth?
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?
(((The Economist))) can fuck right off.
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.
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.
After you read this, you will never read the Economist every again exiledonline.com
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.
You've never actually read The Economist, have you?
I use to love the economist for its classical liberal stance, but its so fucking biased and low-key socialist these days
The Economist has been a puppet for the worldwide banking cartel since I can remember. They are globalists. They are irrelevant now.
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.
So Obongo was who destroy democracy
>South Africa above Russia, Poland, and Singapore
O I am laughing
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
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>Not using the unedited pic
>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.
oy, Poland is just too intolerant
Russia on suicide watch
>Democracy is in trouble, in the mature democracies of western Europe and the US
>...because it's not working in our favour.
>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.
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.
They're free-trade, and Trump isn't.
That's putting it lightly. Market fundamentalist is more apt.
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.
Marine in the back, ready to BTFO EU
>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.
I mean 2016, fuck 1s.
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.
>Oxford's Foreign Policy Analysis
Looks neat thanks
WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY. WE ARE A REPUBLIC WITH DEMOCRATIC TENDENCIES
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...
>(((Economist)))
I think everyone here is of the consensus that The Economist is vapid horseshit.
It's not just simple globalist jews, it's the fucking Rothschilds.
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We're not a true democracy though, we're a democratic republic.
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.
(((Economist)))
(((Ecomomist)))
>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.
hive mind
>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.
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.
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.
It doesn't solely based on those facts. He's saying its easier to be more democratic with those facts
So when can we go full bane and kill eveyone in DC
'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.
The government doesn't "spark" innovation.
The Globalist butthurt about Trump
What's new?
>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?
What is South Africa doing that is "sparking innovation"?
They make it easy to be anything