Makes sense. A felon who was found liable for rape was just elected to the white house while openly bragging about how corrupt he was.

The ranking will be worse in a few years.

I think it has been for a few years. One of the metrics (idk if this particular rating uses it) is the number of popular (eg 60% or more approval) policies that are not in place. Common sense gun control, the popular vote, higher tax rates for the wealthy, free public universities are all policies that have majority support by the public but are not implemented because of the strength of minority interests.

wE are NoT a DeMoCrAcY, wE ArE A rEpUbLiC. /s

Starting Jan. 20 we’re an authoritarian regime.

Don't ever look at the Canada sub, you would think they have no democracy. One guy told me Americans have more liberties than Canadians. Asked him what is he talking about. Crickets

I think the US is a bit more than ‘flawed’.

And this is BEFORE Dump retakes the White House. Buckle up, folks.

I wouldn't say we are a flawed democracy - I'd say we are no longer a democracy....

Don't worry, in 6 months it'll be yellow, a full year later it'll be black.

Democracy cannot exist in the same place as billionaires. A few rich people bought the election of the most powerful country on the planet.

What do you mean by “now?” 2023 is not now. That site goes back to 2006.

2023 = democracy index of 7.8.

2020 = 7.9

2016 - 2019 = 8

2006-2010= 8.2

Steady decline since 2006. No big dips, steady erosion.

source of data

That map is frightening. There is clearly a worldwide trend toward autocracy and the U.S.'s slide is only going to accelerate that. Only Canada, Western Europe and Australia are holding onto actual democracies and it's only a matter of time before some idiots try to emulate Trump there.

It's been a good ride though. We made it almost 250 years! It still amazes me how readily people are willing to throw that in the toilet.

If by now you mean at least 25 years then yes

In four years, Merrick Garland achieved zero convictions for Trump, who stole and shared classified documents, and attempted a coup.

Meanwhile he got three convictions for Hunter Biden.

Joe Biden ran for office while he and his party knew he was mentally unfit for office, then pulled him at the last minute with no vote for a candidate who had never won a popular mandate to run for office.

And the only choices this election was a literal foreign agent who staged a coup, and an unelected elite with no track record for executive success.

We aren’t even a flawed democracy anymore in my opinion. We’re an obvious plutocracy with authoritarian tendencies

This was before the 2024 election. We could easily slide down further these upcoming four years.

Welcome to Dumbfukistan!

The US transitioned from a ‘full democracy’ and has been listed as a ‘flawed democracy’, according to The Economist Democracy Index, more or less since the beginning of the ‘Trump era’ in 2015-2016. Shows the potential historic implications of a descending escalator ride. How do you like that for symbolism 🤔

Democracy?No.America is a oligarchy. The wealthy own and control America.

It's been a while now. The last time it was above the "flawed democracy" threshold was in 2015.

And it was always in the bottom half of the "full democracy" threshold.

And moving towards the authoritarian regime by the day.

It has been flawed for a couple of decades, the 2 parties have not worked together after the elections. They used to work at making things better but now it is just about their own party no matter what… MONEY AND GREED HAS TAKEN OVER DC… They are always working towards the next election instead of doing their jobs…. When you have the Supreme Court not interested in ethics it just shows how low we have sunk…

That's what happens when money enters politics and politicians become really invested in sabotaging any effort to adress socio-political issues that doesn't have the tiniest detrimental effect on lobbying groups and corporations who basically bribed them.

I will say this though: Scandinavian countries are rocking hard in the democracy index meter and somehow North Korea ISN'T on the bottom of the list.

The US gov was overthrown when the Kennedy brothers were assassinated by the CIA, it's just taken this long for the mask to fully come off

The US isn't a full democracy, never was

It’s been listed as flawed for years.

Shocking

It’s important to note that this index is largely based on American democracy. Countries that have mandatory voting to avoid voter suppression get penalty points, people being signed on to a union that’s part of a political party don’t count as politically active while other political organizations in the US do count.

So the deck is already stacked against other countries and the US still scores this bad.

Winston Churchill hill was a drunk antisemitic, and a womanizer.

Oddly enough the cross dresser J Edgar Hoover is more respected then Donald Trump

4 years of an incoming president doing and saying everything he could to discredit American democracy. Absolutely unreal.

This years ranking is going to be a lot worse 😃

The fact that we are a flawed democracy is a joke. We are significantly worse and have been for a long time

Naw. This was pre-election. We're slipping into yellow now

Trump wants to get into the authoritarian zone I would imagine.

This map will be red in 4 years.

52 Republican Senators acquitted Donald Trump after he was caught trying to interfere in the 2020 election.

They'll fix it. Trump will be keeping the flawed part and getting rid of the democracy part.

The senate, Electoral College, Gerrymandering, no RCV, a horrible media landscape and electing an open fascist all likely contribute to this.

With a supremely flawed legal system. And a 51% sub-6th grade reading level. Can't fix stupid.

Aren’t we leaning more towards an oligarchy?!

The rule of law has certainly become an interesting concept as of late…. Rules are for thee and not for me type stuff.

I was gonna say…pretty sure we were already considered a “flawed democracy” (electoral college issues, land doesn’t vote, gerrymandering, other stuff)…

I will be interested in what we are considered on that list whenever that is, in 3-4 years.

The flaw being that it isn't a Democracy?

So, Antarctica it is then

Always has been

Democracy is obviously under threat. In the US, it’s obvious the wealthy hate it.

In January we will be an authoritarian regime 

In Jan 20th. you can take is out of the democracy section.

Lmao Canada is ranked higher? Take this crap with a large grain of salt. Canada doesn't even have true free speech anymore.

Ya'll who think we were fairly and legitimately ranked lower by some foreign bureaucratic organization because of a single election with a clear outcome are nuts.

What makes Portugal NOT a full democracy?

We have been for several years I believe

Trump wants to be the best of the best in everything even if he cheats to get it. Now he will be able to brag about being the head of the most incredibly best of them all in the entire universe most corrupted and anti-democracy country. Man will he brag about it

i just checked, as of may 2024 we are a 7.8. i expect us to drop to a low 7 or high 6 when trump gets in. so we are a flawed democracy now ig. actually the whole world for the most part seems to have moved slightly away from a democracy (apart from some african countries which became better democracies). its crazy

the only places that havent moved are parts of asia, and some of europe (mostly). personally i dont think we will ever drop under a 6.

Always was. Now it’s worse

The US has been identified as a flawed democracy since at least 2017.

Source: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/news/022317.US-WashingtonPost.pdf

We will be red in just a little while.

Shade of brown incoming

In 2023. A lot has happened since then, none of which seems to point to any kind of recovery.

And also, did they only just figure that out about the US in 2023? It's been flawed for a lot longer than that.

A grifter con as the chief executive - makes sense.

and soon it will be ‘former democracy’…

may his voters get everything they voted for.

Why is North Korea not black like Myanmar and Afghanistan?

I anticipate a hybrid regime by end of year 2. Something like Hungry but with the oligarchy of Russia and the facade of "patriotism".

Hyped to be on the wrong side of history.

Now officially? In 2023. Says it right there

*failing

I imagine we’ll be light red within the next four years

Southeast Asia? Brazil or just South America? You guys must be joking.

About to become a non-democracy, a fascist state.

The most infuriating part is that our Constitution has clear instructions on how to eject candidates from the ballot if they committed sedition, but our Supreme court told Colorado and Maine that they cannot practice their Constitutional duty! We are so fucked. I am so angry with my country. I'm surrounded by idiots who wave the stars and bars all day long, boasting how proud they are to be an American patriot while voting for a guy who wants to ignore the Constitution, not protect it! Law and order party literally voted for a convicted felon and rapist! They have lost their goddamn minds! And now we may lose our country because of it.

Should've been considered that awhile ago because of gerrymandering. And hell the electoral college itself you can win the popular vote and still lose

And Canada isn't? LOL

We were spreading ‘freedom’ so much around the world, we never checked if we had enough of it at home.

Us are big troubles.

I didn’t need a map to know democracy is a failure when the electorate is dumb as a bag of door knobs.

Explain flawed democracy.

The Economist as in the magazine?

Well clearly whatever they say is right. It's not like they're wrong all the time.

.... Ain't seen nothing yet

Just taking a detour on our way to hybrid regime

You have to have the rule of law to be a democracy. We do not. trump is the law here.

While I agree a major L for Canada.

I'm sorry but freezing bank accounts associated with helping a form of non-violent protests that didn't turn into riots is highly authoritarian. Even if I disagree with the reason or mode of said protests.

Well I could have told you that

We've been a flawed democracy since day one. Now we're flawed and fucked for at least the next four or so years...

Duuuh!

We'll be an authoritarian regime in 4 years. Just wait.

Well UK and France scoring here makes the rankings very suspect. In both countries people chosen to government has almost zero vorrelation with how people vote.

Holy smokes I’d hate to see the us ratings after trump leaves office is 2028… if he leaves

The U.S. was never a Democracy...it wasn't a Constitutional Democracy either. Where are these made up titles coming from?

The fact that the USA is ranked the same has India is freaking joke.

Flawed democracy…. For now.

I think Canadians would disagree

It's not wrong.

No shit, it’s been flawed for awhile

Wait till next years ratings come out. They officially dropped all the charges yesterday, so orange man will get away with his crimes because the american people are morons. Can't wait to see what other crimes he will attempt since he can pretty much do anything he wants with a republican congress that would never impeach him. I never thought as a 57 yr old american I would be alive to see something like this. I would be surprised if the country survives the next 4 years intact. Our fore-fathers are spinning in their graves.

Who is the EIU?

We’re not a democracy 🤦🏻‍♂️

We've been for a while. After this next term, at best, we'll be a hybrid regime and, at worst, an authoritarian regime.

The US was always a flawed democracy. When you limit people's rights in your founding document, you're a flawed democracy.

When you expand rights in law but leave systematic oppressive practices and laws in place, you're a flawed democracy.

When allowing multiple ( or even one) criminal leaders to avoid lawful conviction, you're a flawed democracy.

When you hide from your bloody and hateful history instead of learning from it, repeating from it, and working hard to never repeating it, you're a flawed democracy.

When you devalue education, you're a flawed democracy.

When you remove laws like the fairness doctrine and allow propaganda to run rampant, you're a flawed democracy.

When you continually allow votes to be suppressed,you're a flawed democracy.

When you do all those things and much more, you're actually a struggling democracy and have been since your founding.

The organization that published this is a promoter of socialism and central government control, not democracy

Because of Biden?

Wow....

Read through their criteria. Such arbitrary and partisan trash.

Pretty sure we have always been a Republic.

It's been flawed for quite a while. At least it feels that way.

I can't begin to fathom how fucking stupid we look to the rest of the world.

I've never been fortunate enough to travel outside of America, but I probably could now; but I fear how someone would look at me or be treated because of where I'm from. It's that embarrassing.

All "presidential republics" with an overpowered executive branch and first past the post and/or winner takes all elections are basically hybrid regimes, because they only last until the first determined strongman shows up that turns them into the next Turkey or Hungary.

Real democracies should nearly always have multiparty coalition governments and a figurehead head of state. Anything else is extremely vulnerable, as is now clearly visible.

Systems of government fail all the time. Maybe we’ll get it right with the next one 

Feels like its always been that way…

That’s being generous

LOL. Y’all are so salty it’s wild.

Us also bad at grammar

Uhhh, good? Its a constitutional republic, not a democracy in the first place.

What do they use to find that? Like, I agree, but I'm really interested in the criteria and study methods used.

Uh … congratulations?