Will MAGA condemn Texan gerrymandering and sign a petition for all States and Feds to have independent Commissions handling redistributions?
- By eclipsenow
- American Politics
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I'll tell you why, with evidence, and I would be very interested if you can argue against this position based on actual evidence (not just your opinion or gut feels or whatever!)
Many independent democracy-watch agencies rate Australia a FULL democracy - and America a FLAWED democracy.
That means America has significant 'democratic decline' - as measured some of these characteristics:
- Free and fair elections are degraded;
- Liberal rights of freedom of speech, press[22] and association decline, impairing the ability of the political opposition to challenge the government, hold it to account, and propose alternatives to the current regime;
- The rule of law (i.e., judicial and bureaucratic restraints on the government) is weakened, such as when the independence of the judiciary is threatened, or when civil service tenure protections are weakened or eliminated.
- An over-emphasis on national security as response to acts of terrorism or perceived antagonists.
- Democratic backsliding - Wikipedia
The global and largest database of democratic performance, the V-Dem Institute, calls their report "Democracy Trumped" and opens with this paragraph:
A Word from the Authors WE ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT the 9th annual Democracy Report 2025: 25 Years of Autocratization – Democracy Trumped? When we were finishing up the last touches on the Democracy Report three years ago, Russia launched its full-scale, illegal invasion of Ukraine. The war is still going on. But back then, the alliance backing this young, aspiring democracy was solid and included the United States of America.
AS WE ARE finishing up this year’s Democracy Report, recently inaugurated President Trump is voting against NATO allies in the UN joining with autocracies like North Korea, Russia, and Sudan. Military support to Ukraine was just cut off, and the words coming out of the Trump administration echo Kremlin rhetoric. European leaders are scrambling to mount a sufficient response. The world is going through another convulsion.
Have European thought-leaders ever reported on an American administration like this?
On page 9 they give the USA 0.7-0.8 compared to Australia's 0.9-1.0.
You have democratic decline.
There are others - but this will do for now.
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