For a country that 'champions' democracy, why is USA not #1 ?

For a country that 'champions' democracy, why is USA not #1 ?

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>Electoral process and pluralism: 9.17

>mauritius
>uruguay
Hearty kek.
Well done, amerisharts.

British culture.

Their system is a scam, very undemocratic.

We're not far behind the sharters desu

What's wrong with Uruguay?

Americans can only vote between the 2 mainstream parties hoping the next will actually do something in the next term

Well there are US citizens in the USA who are subjected to taxation without representation (Washington DC). No voting representatives on Congress.

I'm surprised their score is that high

>British culture.

All Brits in the UK are represented by an MP in Parliament. Not all Americans are represented.

Nothing. There's nothing wrong with Mauritius either, but both countries are in continents in which you wouldn't expect to find a better functioning democracy than yours.

That hasn't been the case since 1970.

AUTHORITY FUCK YEAH GULAGS FUCK YEAH

Amerifats on suicide watch

>Britnonfunctioninggoverments

Why not m8

>That hasn't been the case since 1970.
You are lying

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_voting_rights

> The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1961, entitles the District to three electoral votes in the election of the President and Vice President of the United States.

You're fucking retarded. Neck yourself

They're small with little corruption in comparison. It's easy to be good when your country is a microstate.

>worse than Cuba
What?

Holy shit you're stupid. Go read my original post again No voting representatives IN CONGRESS

It's pathetic. They pay federal taxes but they have no voting representatives in the place where the government budgets are set.

Do you think Congress doesn't matter? Do you know how your own country works?

The electoral college. 100% non democratic.

Incredible that a Brit has to explain to an American that "taxation without representation" is a Bad Thing

>Authority

>UK government is more dysfunctional than ours
Is this proof of Britains 3rd worldness?

>muh monarchy is bad!!!

In what way is our government more dysfunctional than yours?

Look at the index retard.

I saw the index. I'm asking in what way it's more dysfunctional.

Probably because you live in a shithole with worse HDI :^)

7 out of the top 10 countries on that list are constitutional monarchies. That doesn't mean they don't have a democracy, they're just not republics.

>Insurgency in Norn
>NHS is shit
>Paki rape gangs
>BIN THAT KNIFE
>UKIP shitshow
>Scotland shitshow
>PM resigning

Just a hunch

Try to say that to our republicucks.

>w-what !? but they have a king/queen !!! muh revolution !!! BEHEAD THEM !!! IMPORT AFRICANS EN MASSE, FUCK FASCISTS !!!!!!!

>Australia
>Civil liberties 10
>When many video games are legally banned there

But the French revolutionaries created our monarchy. We were a republic before you guys came along.

This is a weird list. E.g.

>UKIP shitshow
>Scotland shitshow
>PM resigning

So... you have some kind of problem with democracy? I guess I can understand that, coming from a country which has had taxation without representation for its entire existence.

It's about context. The French revolution was against the absolute monarchy. Had the French government not been so backward maybe there would've been no revolution.

Northern European monarchies like the UK or Sweden have more multicultural approach to their immigrants than France.

UKIP shitshow was a failure for democracy though. Proportionally they got almost no seats in parliament.

And a PM resigning and parts of the country wanting to leave shows lack of leadership and stability in the countries political system.

The states are states. There's a fuckload of them.
UK is smaller than California but closest to it.
Yorkshire is bigger than NZ less pretty because it's grim and no sun.

You're welcome :^)

Can I just comment in passing Monsieur.. We couldn't have hoped for a more worthy nemesis.
Thank you Froglad
You are the benchmark.

>mexico
>green
Lol

The ranking is counted with European values.
I don't want Japan becomes like European country.

>UKIP shitshow was a failure for democracy though. Proportionally they got almost no seats in parliament.

It's not a failure for democracy. They all played by the same rules. First past the post, just like the USA uses, so you're calling your own country a failure too.

>And a PM resigning and parts of the country wanting to leave shows lack of leadership and stability in the countries political system.
PM resigned because he can't lead the country if the country disagrees with him on the way forward. The governing party elected a new leader and we have a stable government so what's the problem?

Why do you think parts of the country want to leave? You going to start posting old opinion polls now? It's funny how people here use Scotland's vote to stay part of the UK as evidence that they want to leave the UK.

It's worth repeating that some US citizens have no voting representation in Congress. But they're forced to pay the same taxes as other US citizens. Don't you think taxation without representation is a bad idea?

You shouldn't have lost the war then.

>France
>First modern parliamentary democracy
>Nowhere to be seen on the list

>France
>First modern parliamentary democracy

You're welcome, nvidia

>PM resigned because he can't lead the country if the country disagrees with him on the way forward. The governing party elected a new leader and we have a stable government so what's the problem?

It's seen as instability as it gives off an air of dis-functionality. The fact that many people are calling for a redo of the referendum also implies that there's been a very large stratification within your political system. If it was functioning as intended, there wouldn't be such a huge backlash like there was.

>Insurgency in Norn
Probably NI boosts the UK.
It's the last bastion of Christian values.. Families remember why it's important to stick together, not oh yes toxic if you have a fight everyone split.the modern way

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_date_of_transition_to_republican_system_of_government

I'd still rather live in the states than Norgay.

Families is the only way.

>It's seen as instability as it gives off an air of dis-functionality.

Really? PM changes between elections happen far more often in Australia than the UK but I don't see you complaining about Australia. Is it just ignorance?

>If it was functioning as intended, there wouldn't be such a huge backlash like there was.

A yes/no referendum is always going to polarise. Referendums aren't part of our "political system" they're not built into it in any way. You're complaining about the choices of one PM rather than the functioning of our political system, which is a representative democracy.

An actual representative democracy, unlike yours, which can't even represent all citizens.

i feel cucked

>An actual representative democracy, unlike yours, which can't even represent all citizens
You're a part of the EU m8. Until you leave, you can't claim all your political decisions are represented by the citizens either.

>You're a part of the EU m8. Until you leave, you can't claim all your political decisions are represented by the citizens either.

All UK citizens are represented by an MP Westminster and an MEP in the European Parliament. The major EU decisions are made by the democratically elected national leaders.

Probably because you aren't suppose to live there or when you move there you know about it

>you aren't supposed live in the capital city
>american intellectuals

>MEP in the European Parliament
Which is beholden to the European commission of unelected officials.
>The major EU decisions are made by the democratically elected national leaders.
Cool, so our the decisions made by our state representatives. That's nothing special.

>Probably because you aren't suppose to live there or when you move there you know about it

Is this the best excuse you can think of to deny legit taxpaying US citizens voting representation in Congress? Why can other democratic federations with government districts like Australia manage to give all their citizens representation but the US can't do it?

Maybe you just think taxation without representation is okay. After all, these US citizens committed the horrendous crime of living in their own country.

>Which is beholden to the European commission of unelected officials.

Here we go. I'm just going to cut this short and say everyone knows about the EU's democratic deficit and that's one of the reasons the UK is leaving. But at least all citizens are represented. The USA is a country not a supra-national union and you guys can't even manage that.

If you're resorting to comparisons with the EU and you're setting the bar *that* low then something is very wrong

Or maybe because so few people live there that it's a non issue?

Meanwhile, the British people have no control whatsoever over what the EU commission can do to them at the behest of other nations in the Union.

>The USA is a country not a supra-national union
Actually, it's both.

Every time you see indexes where Russia is worst than U(k)raine you already know what you looking at.

A non issue!

Over half a million US citizens subjected to taxation without representation is a NON ISSUE. Well at least you're honest. It's kinda sad though.

>Actually, it's both.

No it is not both. US states are NOT nations. There are NOT several national governments within the USA. Look up "supranational" in a dictionary

I want to move to Canada or a Nordic country

Yeah it is built for the government. There's no reason to be there if you aren't working for the government

Texas, Vermont and California and Hawaii were independent

Are they independent today? There is only one sovereign government in the USA.

The only supranational union in the world is the EU

>were

test

Technically our Prime Minister isnt elected.

>Spain
>Democracy

KEK, Brits and Spanish have the same shitty goverment

>Muh proofs

Cubans actually live better than fucking russians

>having an oppositionless parlament
>having institutions to control and censor media
>having an internet police to monitor unpleasant activities
>still considered a democracy by this out of the ass studie/statistic

That's simply ridiculous. Did a child do this or even worse a social studies disabled?

He is elected in the same way as any other MP

Our Chancelor either, but we elected the people that elected her.
And after constitution it's the party that reigns not the chancelor.

>Spain
>full democracy

This is the biggest surprise of that list.

Why?