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Forums - Politics Discussion - The Economist Just Downgraded the US From a ‘Full Democracy’ to a ‘Flawed Democracy’

Dayyum, slowly sliding into a dictatorship?

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-economist-just-downgraded-the-us-from-a-full-democracy-to-a-flawed-democracy/



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Surprised that the article made no mention of how Bernie Sanders was cheated out of the primary by the DNC because that was indeed undemocratic.



Democracy doesn't exist, never did.



sounds about right.



This study is pure comedy gold.

But coming in the first week of the presidency of Donald Trump, a man who has claimed that election systems are “rigged,” who lies about supposed “voter fraud” and who attacks the media outlets who call him out for those lies, the announcement is all the more unsettling.

Voter fraud by the Russians was proclaimed for months from everywhere and now it is the opposite again and there never was any fraud.



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I can tell you right now that the list is flawed.



Next up. Flawed dictatorship.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

No Joke. Trump wanted a missile parade like North Korea for his inauguration.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315184-trump-team-wanted-tanks-missile-launchers-in-parade-report

We are well on our way. He is waging war on the media, along with Alternate Facts from Conway.



It baffles me how anti-Trump supporters are so fixated that they didn't even look at the list.



Well normally in a democracy the person who gets the most votes wins and the person with the least votes loses. So 'flawed' may be a discreet way to call it.