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Neoliberalism, with its goal of increasing the wealth of plutocrats at the expense of people at the bottom, is incompatible with democratization. So it's no surprise that gains in democratization have been eliminated.

We better show up 🪧🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍⚧️.

King Poo time for another NO KING DAY, as the stench is strong...

which is a fancy way of saying an oligarchy where there are a few hundred oligarchs instead of a few dozen

GOP / 1870's given the chance .

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Who is V-Dems?

1978. The year Carter was talking about a crisis of confidence. Turned out it wasn't a mood — it was a forecast.

Ideological structures provide fascia to hide the oligarchic process of money creation and control beneath. Global economic democracy is established by including each human being on the planet equally in a globally standard process of fixed cost money creation

Uhm, Shall we just state pontifically that since the Trump regime came to power, there has clearly been a case of dictatorship!

Never will be.

If we could just get rid of a few men, Kim Putin xi trump and a few more this world would be better

DuhMerica is DuhVoted to DuhMockery

This bluesy, salsa reminds us that while he lives in decadence and plays golf at Mar-a-Lago, Donald T.R.U.M.P. is telling us that the price in dollars and lives is a “Small Price to Pay." youtu.be/Piqqqlp4jX8?...

No King.

That's a sobering report. What does it say about our collective progress as a global community?

No problem with “downgraded from liberal to electoral democracy”

Please share and pleas join! @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org

Trump's TARRIFFS Trump's ECONOMY Trump's CHAOS HE OWNS IT ALL! FOX is lying to you! The GOP is gaslighting you! And NO ONE WILL TELL THE EMPEROR THAT HE HAS NO CLOTHES!!! That is what has happened to our democracy!!!

Trump is an imbecile who has set us back about 50 years. That seems about right.

I really hate Trump the pedophile rapist conman, his minions & GOP lawmakers except few! 😡

Perhaps there is tooooo much liberalisation, correctness, rainbows and isms

It’s always been electoral…meaning rigged

We must bring leaders that are inclusive of all races, colors, religions, sexual orientation, nationality, thought orientation. Leaders who want to serve only people of their kind, will cause huge harm to all of us.. #EpsteinFiles #RemoveTrumpFromOffice #JusticeForReneeGood #JusticeForAlexPretti

Republicans can only destroy and oppress.

Well I don't have the "data", just vibes. But I was around in 1978. We are *way* worse off in terms of democracy than we were then. It's not even close. What's happening now is unprecedented in my lifetime, and nothing is remotely close, not even the Reagan era.

The US is a plutocracy. Rapidly becoming a fascist dictatorship with corrupt capitalist elements and some restricted freedom.

I'm starting to wonder if it's been rigged for years.

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His goal is exploitation, personal revenge, self-promotion and staying out of prison. Other than that, he doesn’t give a shit who dies or what happens to the United States or anything. Poster Boy Sociopath.

We are right in there about 25 countries down the list. Thanks Republicans!

Electorialism isn't democracy though. There is no genuinely bonafide democracy on this planet. Just oppressive state regimes pretending to be.

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Pres. Epstein wants to take our democracy back to the 1950s with Project 2025 by eradicating decades of civil rights, women's rights, and ACA subsidies just to name a few.

You have 9 days America. Don't stay home. None of you better come up with some weak-ass excuse for not being there. Don't stay home. The streets must be a cloud of decent citizens, showing the republicans, their supporters, and the world, that we are the only majority in this country.

And anyone that believes in the “electoral” part is willfully naive at best.

I can't seem to face up to the facts I'm tense and nervous, and I can't relax Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away Oh-oh-oh I start a conversation, I can't even finish it Im talking a lot, but I’m Not saying anything

Interesting.

Trump has shown that this was always a fallacy. Us presidents aren't much without their allies.

The current President is more like a live in property manager - he’s overseeing it on behalf of the owner who’s in Russia

And trump is no president.

Mexico: Former president López Obrador controls the executive through Sheinbaum. The legislative through illegal over representation. The judiciary through a sham election. The electoral institute. Allied to drug cartels. A failed State that doesn't control its territory, provides no security.

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And in some places, presidents are not even presidents.

Nixon started it. Reagan fined tuned the messaging.

Reagan was the original evil (from a few years before because the US has always been racist)

That was the plan since Reagan.

Surely 1944 levels.

FCK Trump and the REGIME!

Gee I wonder why ….

Trump is not a king. He is a temp worker on a 4-year contract and living for free in government housing. He's an employee. That's it.

People who say this are so deeply, deeply stupid.

We are devo.

And he is also no president

Without a doubt, and I feel it is so fucking bad and spans so many issues we can’t reliably say, “its like this past time period” Because it’s literally all of the worst ones rolled into one Soooo we are in the 2020’s… as this shit is history in the making…

Even Nazis did not store people in warehouses, they had camps, they evolved badly but imagine how warehouses will evolve

Old Bone Spurs in a combat role? I can't either but that's the problem; these monsters plunge us into war & the primary targets are civilians, and not the military. As they're anti-choice, I believe this is their answer to birth control. We live in the Stupidverse.

It US actually fell from a "full" to "flawed" democracy on the GLOBAL Democracy Index in 2016 coinciding with Trump's arrival on the political scene. In this V-Dem report, it's ranked #51 on its democracy index & is now on "the list of autocratizers".

The constitution was meant to reign in Presidents not allow them to reign as kings.

Really something coming from the people who would never step onto the front lines.

electoral? Because of the electoral college, right?

They say worst in a 100 years but how is it worst than McCarthyism and/or Jim Crow? It'll get there but is it there yet?

Most of these are supported and/or created by the US

It's so hard to see how politics, people around government are thinking about themselves greedy and the rest of the 🇺🇸citizens can die because bad decisions has been taken for people in the highest levels. 🔶💩Turn us in slaves from day1 of his presidency.

The US is an auto-ocracy. We are ruled by mega-giant pickup trucks.

What is this bull shit? Blacks and women could not get credit cards in the 70s let alone have enough rights to vote. It’s totally better because now these minorities helped vote in Trump to remove the Dems that got them their rights to start with - full circle of democracy. Liberal baby!!

Stands to reason since Trump and his peers were all born in the 40's. They're dragging us back to when they were relevant and young.

(do not talk about your age in chat), however we are not going to babysit anyone who can't behave. Do not take kindness as a weakness. If you can chat, you can read. If you can't vibe, you can't stay here

In case you want to see and hear a calm and elegant person before he himself is almost sure to be killed. Here it is Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0d0...

Should be authoritarian cult led by a madmen supported by ass kidding greedy grifting Republican traitors & Christian fundamentalist rapture pushing zealots

He's not a President Either! The Election was RIGGED!

You think? This was overdue since Reagan.

Now, just let THAT "sink in", America......

Trump has single-handedly removed the status of the US as the one of the greatest nations on Earth. We are no longer a model of representative democracy, and are now in a state of 'competitive authoritarianism'. We still have elections but they'll no longer be guaranteed to be free and fair

Since Reagan, the faux belief in 🇺🇸 exceptionalism has been fed to and by the entitled majority. Worst things could happen than the level set that is occurring … like the current slipping away from the 🇺🇸 democracy the founders laid out for us to strive toward.

and Dementia patients should not be Presidents.

But disco-cracy is doing great, baby!

Vote every single gop out of office from local seats to federal.. they are destroying America.. and the world.. gop do not care about us.. average Americans.. or remember they work for us! Register to vote now!! Vote blue.. democrats down the ballot!!🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊

I was there and this is way worse.

wtf is this bullshit article? The US had never been a democracy. If the people could influence policy through voting, the US wouldn't have been in so many wars.

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Obergefell v Hodges, Roe v Wade, Fair Housing Act, Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act, Loving v Virginia, Browder v Gayle, Brown v BofE, 19th amendment, 13th and 14th amendments. MAGA R’s would like to repeal all of these historic cases.

Recommended: today's Thomas Friedman's NY Times Opinion "This was Minnesota standing up" on "neighboring" in Minnesota in the face of fascist activities in his home state. It's long and I read the whole thing. Well done.

Democracies are respectful and require work. Autocracies are easy with less hindrances.

One difference being that actual kings nowadays aere much more benign. They haven't been chosen, by legally allowed methods either, so no difference on that point.

djt is not a President. djt is a self enrichment expert.

Is this Great I don't know anything about the 70s Why do we have to be forced to relive that as a society? Progress NOT Regress!

This is so tragic..so heartbreaking..it just shows Americans how fragile Democracy is .

Thank you for sharing this incredibly subjective report.

The USA is back to 1965 levels. Never has a country falling this fast. 52% of project 2025 is already implemented

'Murrica is now a banana-Republic(an) nation. Congrats. *golf clap* Why the fuck are you allowing those shitheels to run your country still? Sort your shit out or die on the vine. Imperial Rome lasted 1500 years. You'll be lucky to last over 200.

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