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Based on 31 million data points for 202 countries, compiled by 4,200 scholars and other contributors, measuring 600 different attributes of democracy, within six months to a year, the US will officially no longer be a democracy.
My favorite bullshit from the MAGAs had been “this is not a democracy, it’s a republic”.
It used to be both, now it aspires to be neither.
Not surprising we need to completely clean house
The cleaning thats getting done is in favor of autocracy.
Surely the richest men alive will save us from the predations of the rich and powerful.
-Voters, 2024
Wired takes a sober but meaningful look at what’s happening from the context of 20th century history. I learned some new terminology there, “electoral autocracy” which is what they’re calling most modern dictatorships that continue having mock but ineffectual elections.
They exported so much democracy that they have not any left
While at the same time backing every single right wing dictatorship that wanted American money