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America isn't even the most democratic democracy in the world tho.
How is this a counter to what he said? The second-most democratic country in the world isn't the most democratic either, it'd still be a bad thing for it to lose its democracy
Yeah so maybe lets not let the Republicans fick it up even worse.
America isn't even the most democratic country in the Americas, but that's clearly not the point they're making.
If the title was "...end of world democracy" you'd have a point but given how much fascistic rhetoric and policy has increased around the world since trunpism it's fair to say many countries are following the US lead here.
Curious! Who is?
It's usually the Nordics and New Zealand topping the rankings each year, depending on which index you ask
Sadly it feels (unsure about factual numbers) that NZ is heading to similar styles as the US in terms of politics.
Two elections ago our slightly right of centre main party used popularist Trump/MAGA style campaigning and got slammed for it.
However the latest govt has bypassed a bunch of good process (using urgency) to just repeel a bunch of stuff the previous govt put in place.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. The most possible democracy would require every single government decision requiring a vote by its citizens.
It would be pure chaos and incompetent
I think using process is pretty important and urgency should be used when needed, not just to get a bunch of anti-the last regime policies through.
This is how I understand our governments movements. Everything they have done this with this time could have gone through proper process.
Our leader even said that his politicians were uninterested in hearing what experts in the fields think or what the longer term issues might be from the decisions.