"I love democracy, I love the republic"."In order to secure the security and stability, the republic will be reorganised to the first galactic Empire" - Senator Palpatine
Can you check out this video about the US elections please? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-61lR-Hux8Is.htmlsi=omQZJj-vfwczsbJ1 Very appreciated!
@@xbirdshorts5075 considering the weimar republic sucked hard when it came to being a functioning state I would be surprised if that wasnt the case honestly.
People know the system is failing and the establishment is deeply tied to the _reasons_ for that failure. Sadly, "it's the fault of immigrants/feminism/diversity/the gays" is an easier sell than actually deconstructing the problem.
People are focused on the 2 trans kids one of which may join the girl's lacrosse team next season while civil rights are overthrown and environmental regulations and safe food standards are eliminated. A global general strike is only tool we have left
democracy is only good when the voting people aren't stupid. people often get carried away some candidates' entertaining and well-spoken manners and they end up voting them instead of voting the most suited candidate, a candidate that maybe isn't an agile speaker but has excellent ideas
no, it can work with stupid people too, because the stupid cancels out. The real problem is mass media planting ideas into the stupid people's heads so they all vote the same instead of cancelling each other out.
@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn Yup it's always been the case but these days it gotten easier, especially with internet and social media, misinformation is rampant these days and it's manipulating people judgments and narratives
@Letsthinkaboutit-mb7nn Idk but it seems to be getting worst these days especially with the internet and social media which helps the spreading of miss information
Fun fact: people get frustrated with democracy when every politician fail to fulfill their campaign promises, protect them, be remotely competent or steal from public funds.
Yeah, much better to have an un-elected politician that can't be removed who fails to fulfill their campaign promises, protect them, be remotely competent or steals from public funds instead.
a lot of people, specially in first world and developed countries, are getting complacent and too comfortable with having freedom and rights, obviously there's still corruption and in parliamentary democracies legislation can get stuck and politics can get stale because you need a solid majority to pass most things, but a lot people see a bit of decline and get fear mongered by their media and start getting radicalized enough to instead of looking for fixes and progression, look for accelerationism and sometimes even backwards revolutionary ideas, they forget they have it really good compared to most of the world
People got used to a rapid development, not understanding that they're already nearing the peak. Only choice is between expecting a technological breakthrough, or scrap current political regimes in hope to build better ones.
Half the population voted for someone who said “I’ll close the border” and they were called deplorables and much worse. Democracy works when the will of the majority is enacted, but people don’t feel like they’re being heard. Democracy is DYING because the media and the elite are splitting people up against each other and building frustration. The system itself is rotten. It has nothing to do with a little bit of frustration. Democracy endured during the great depression and recession for crying out loud. But it may die now because unlike then, people REALLY REALLY don’t feel heard now. Which is what kills democracy.
The issue is, there are some pretty simple changes that could be made that would massively improve the democratic deficit in this country that will never be passed due to our two party system. First past the post is meant to prevent extremism by denying pure democracy instead one of our biggest parties has been overtaken by extremists. Not only is it not democratic it is also ineffective giving massove majorities to parties that represent the views of tiny minorities in this country yet have the power to do everything.
Democracy is also declining in the UK, or at least the government is trying to: the ban of peaceful protest is one of them, and right to privacy is just about all but gone with the govt. Wanting an access to all electronic communication without a warrant or any reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
It's all about balance. People have the right to protest but other people also have the right to not be unnecessary inconvenienced by what is essentially a glorified mob temper tantrum. Also in what way is telling people they can't block motorways (one protester has already died due to the cars not being able to stop in time due to them running onto the carriageway unexpectedly causing extreme trauma for the drivers) and set fire to public property an infringement of their protest rights. Cos that's what essentially some people complaining about. Also in the age of encryption, the right of privacy has to be balanced by the right to public safety as terro*its exploit encryption/privacy to plan out terror attacks. You need to take these complex matters into account.
At 7:00, democratic backsliding in Modi Govt in India because he is popular and is fulfilling his mandate ? Violence against minorities ? You need to re-examine your data and your biases
Quiet different as Russian oligarchs are created by a dictator to serve the dictator. American billionaire actually made their money, even if they used some unethical tactics.
To be fair, being CEO of a megacorporation and being friends with the right people in government are two very different things. Although some American billionaires are closer to oligarchs than others.
I think these maps overestimate "democracy" in the western world. "Democracy" is not only being able to vote but also having a government that actually does "what their people want" as opposed to "what lobbying gtoups and other elitist groups of interest want". Within this context, is my government really democratic? Is my government really doing what the majority wants? If we are honest, I think these maps would be different.
How would you quantify this? There isn't such a thing as "the will of the people", every country is split into groups with radically differing opinions. The elected government will, in the best-case scenario, do what its voters want. Others will be disregarded. It's easy to catch outliers when everybody is opposed to some change, but it's very hard to judge all policies and decisions overall.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4t Ehh you could take major issues or ideas that show heavy support via polls, not just like 51-49 but stuff that gets 75% or more support and see if their governments are implementing these ideas. In the US I can think of a multiple ideas that pull massive support in polls but are complete non-starters in our legislature.
@@Valpo2004 What party gets 75% of the votes? Only a fraction of these people chose the current government, and maybe it was mostly voted in by the other 25. Then there is the question of how reasonable people's opinions are. Everybody wants lower taxes but better healthcare. It's usually one or the other. Etc, etc.
Yeah, I think you’re kind of overselling democracy as a concept. We have governments that are the most representative of our beliefs in human history and it’s still deeply flawed and unrepresentative. The problem is that democracies are logistical nightmares that are far more vulnerable to collapse than authoritarianism. So while I agree about your complaints I think the map is accurate. Insofar as we’ve ever had a democracy, we still do; and we still have a lot to lose.
Not in Canada,Worry not citizens the Gonverment accesing bank accounts of truckers and taking away their right of protest surely doesn't mean authoritarianism🥰🥰
Man learn the actual history of what happened. In protests across the west I saw happen in Europe and the USA after the Canada trucker protest and all of them waved Canada flags as they saw that the truckers were treated better in Canada than similar protests across the world. The truckers couldn’t even protest in the usa or France they got blocked by the military.
@@jamescoulson7729I think it's more authoritarian to block someone's bank account than block the path of a protest. Using a state apparatus to identify and punish dissidents is not very democratic. But they aren't coming for you yet so you will say nothing
@@dwaynezilla Trump was insigated by Russia. Truckers are by Russia. Farmers are by Russia. Pro Palestinians are by Russia. Is there anything in the west,Russia doesn't already control??😂😂
This video is about 90% subjective opinion and about 10% based on anything real. BTW, the EIU is an arm of the Economist, a British newspaper, for those curious, and goes a long way to explaining the healthy dose of bias present within the video.
This video was about as unbiased and objective as anything discussing politics. If you think there's any "bias" here, you might want to check your own biases.
@@shadowpriest3359 Of course I'm biased, everyone is - including you. However, traditional media outlets usually label this kind of content as Opinion. TL;DR should do the same.
I honestly laughed when I saw the UK wasn’t ranked as a flawed democracy. Some serious euro bias I this data. We have our problems in America but Europe is a shit show right now.
@@shadowpriest3359 Yeah bro, totally unbiased to call america a 'flawed democracy' when you can elect each of the 3 branches of government separately and the leader of the country has term limits, then to turn around and call Canada a 'full democracy' when you can only elect one branch, AND the governing party can call an election whenever they specifically so the leader can remain uncontested in power for 20+ years. You have brain damage lmfao
Also in Indonesia, not only the current president Jokowi made a way for his son to run for vice president but also the current polls showing Prabowo and Jokowi's son are winning, and Prabowo specifically said in an interview that "Indonesia isn't ready for democracy, we need an strong authoritarian leader" which is very scary.
Is that mistranslation or did you intentionally do that? Even then you didn't tell why he said something like that. Context is Important. Neutral translation is like this "Indonesia isn't ready for a soft leader, we need a strong leader." Then the context was about how the world is going down in spiral of war. About how weaker countries get bullied by stronger countries. Where countries with tons of alliances and military are going to be more important in the upcoming decades. He even publicly told why a certain country get invaded by their neighbour and almost none of the other neighbours is helping. They are weak. That's the truth. Even then, after saying that, he still sent a fleet to assist in medical section for that country. All of us need to remember, Prabowo come from military background that experience the up and down of Indonesia. From when young Indonesia struggling with world recognition, toppling of first president, massacre of the Red, controlled by US(Suharto reign), toppling of Suharto, Financial crisis with their effects, 20 years long of two respected and capable presidentd(SBY, Jokowi). He also tried to be president several times and at the end joined the current president as minister of defense.
As for about how the minimal age to be a president being changed from 40 to 35? Honestly, I hate that. It should be 18, not 35. We can vote when you have identification card(17-18) but you can't vote for young people(18-25)? How heck are we going to have young people voices be heard properly? Are you sure old foggies would know and care about young people concern? Are you sure they would even understand the current culture war in the internet, and how even internet work? Can they even understand what is a server? Lol
Btw, for the changing of minimum age requirement. I dislike it very much. The minimum legal age should be 18 in the first place. If you can choose by 18, you should've been able to be chosen at 18. What's the point of being able to vote at 18 if your voice can only be heard by people at the age 35, heck 40.
Without a free press and free speech, democracy is simply not possible. One of the best ways to judge if a country is democratic is how free the press and speech is.
@@inbb510 a society has free speech when someone can say something that the vast majority vehemently disagrees with. Most of the world is (including so called countries with “full democracy 😂🤣) so undemocratic that people living there can not even comprehend what free speech is! Any country that bans hate speech is undemocratic.
Can you check out this video about the US elections? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-61lR-Hux8Is.htmlsi=omQZJj-vfwczsbJ1 Very appreciated?
@@teaser6089 Why did you put a smiling face? For me it's completely irrelevant, people make their own choices. In democracies there is a collective responsability of society and sometimes some decisions are incredibily stupid. People tend to forget that H1tl3r was voted by the people of Germany.
Communal violence in India didn't suddenly sprout after 2014, and every study shows that since 1947 there has been a net decline in the number of communal violence related incidents. What has happened instead is that the country has become more polarized. Just like in the US. But "democratic backsliding"? Come on!
Agreed. No one should be above reproach and the central govt. needs to be challenged significantly more. But unfortunately, most of the political parties had got into a habit of winning elections by booth capturing & screwing over the people until mid-2000s. Now they are finding themselves out of ideas in social media driven polarized world. The current opposition coalition failed when they were in power and are now failing again in their messaging to the people. We have most incompetent opposition leaders in the world.
democracy is just a form of legitimacy for bureaucrats so that the people think they have power then dont. outside of small countries it will never exist
and even if there was a government there is a cordon sanitaire so your only allowed to vote for what the ruler wants wich is just dictatorship with a mask atleast kim is honest
@@BRUH-lx3jv Doesn't have a working government. Strangely enough, the country didn't have a government at all a few years back, yet Belgium didn't crumble.
No need to get complicated about it. Russia and China support authoritarian regimes, and both those countries are rich and powerful enough to influence worldwide politics. It's far easier to destroy a free democracy than it is to build one.
As an Indian, I can assure you that democracy is fine in India. Their are dozens of media houses and youtubers who have made a fortune criticizing the government. Supreme Court had also slapped the government whenever they try to breach constitution. The most recent example which happened a few days ago is when the SC struck down the electoral bonds that government tried to bring.
If you think democracy isn't backsliding in India, you have blinders on. The SC judgement was slow and immediately got a rebuke from Modi. (No lows he cannot fall to.) ED's harassment of only opposition candidates, the election commission being under Modi's thumb, all mainstream media houses being spokespeople for the BJP, open horse trading... I can go on and on. Electoral bonds were just one example. The SC is the only hope.
It's incredible. These people might be the only news outlet I have ever heard butcher his name this fucking bad. Right after Alexey was murdered too. Absolutely insane.
Alexei Navalny criminal indictments: 2013: Embezzlement, 5 year sentence suspended 2014: Fraud, 3.5 year sentence suspended 2020: Defamation, fined $11,500 2021: Parole violation, 3.5 year sentence to prison In multiple videos from the late 2000s, Navalny compared ethnic minorities from the Caucasus and Central Asia to "cockroaches". No videos about Assange's incarceration?? Double standards
he supported every action of putins in the Ukraine, he supported most of his other policies, he just said that putin was corrupt, if anything putin is moderate relative to him and he only got rid of him as he could have been a threat
@@sellis2819 There's no evidence that Putin off'd him, and there are 3 reasons for him not to do it: 1. It's created a PR problem for him. 2. Alexei was in prison already 3. Alexei wasn't close to being popular enough to win presidency; his one moment of "success" (if you can call it that) is coming second place in the Moscow mayoral elections with 27% of the vote. There are also accusations of him working for the CIA, which I can't find evidence of, but I find it suspicious that western Govts and media have bleeding hearts for any Russians, much less a racist and inept political figure.
Democracy is a failure, but people praise it with a religious devotion. Corrupt politicians aren't a flaw, but a feature of democracy. We need a better system, we need Meritocracy!
@@sellis2819 Does it? Sound just like the same...just that executive is inherited and the people have zero control over it. Sounds like a huge invitation to rather simple corruption to me....
I do love how countries such as the UK, Japan, South Korea or even the United states are even considered Democracies even though known for their massive corruption scandals involving wealthy companies almost outright buying the parties policies, or media organizations to make sure you know the least about who you are voting for or who they support. I mean come on I don't see how the United states is any different to an autocracy with extra steps, like you can choose between a government that doesn't support your interest or another government that doesn't support you interest, like hell at least China or North Korea have the honesty to tell you that it ain't a democracy.
These kind of surveys are definitely biased towards corporate-dominated oligarchies Makes me wonder that the people behind these are pushing forward the idea that corporate rule = good
@@ryannathaniel9296 its funded by cia agent george soros west is trying very hard to change regime in india but they failed before they will fail again
@@ryannathaniel9296In some countries you dont even need to convince people of that. Argentina voted for a libertarian president even though the left party tried its best to lie, manipulate information, and paying ads with literal disinformation and defamation about him on RU-vid (They used more than 5 million dollars just on this, which is even crazier when you consider Argentina's inflation, which was of course mostly caused by them) The libertarian candidate still won, not only that, he won by a 10% difference, which is crazy considering that was also the election in which most people voted in Argentina since... Ever i believe. Edit: Also, the amount of discussion regarding fake information made it so that bassically most people know at least something about politics now, which is honestly really good
And if democracy is destroyed across the globe, soon any bold man with a certain set of skills can carve out a dictatorship for himself in this fallen planet Obviously not me, obviously, but maybe *you* ?
Seeing countries like Thailand, Maleysia, Indonesia and so on, depicted as equally democratic as Czechia, Italy and Chile seems quite wrong. I am pretty sure some are quite more "flawed" then others.
a lot of people in the west forget that they have it pretty good despite whatever issues they have, obviously Democracies can get stale and stuck and corrupt but still, very few people with criticism have any decent solutions, most people just get fear mongered and radicalized and they have no solutions, just anger
Two immigrants just shot some people int he train where I live. Kids got shot and a homeless guy died. They still haven’t caught them. Yeah we got it pretty good but for how long? We keep telling out politicians “close the border” and they don’t. That is how democracy dies, any more killings near you and you stop caring about a democracy that does not serve you i.e. El Salvador.
Yeah, the people who want to throw out a declining democracy entirely are like ???? And replace it with what, exactly? How you gonna get several hundred million people who hate each other to agree on something? It’s not gonna happen, you’re just gonna get civil wars for several decades. Nothing good comes of it.
I can understand that North America is flawed. Still, I never knew there were a lot of flawed democracies in the world, let alone how many authoritarian countries existed and those without any democracy at all.
Given that Canada, the United States, and Mexico are all quite different from each other, it's quite the over simplification to say 'North America is flawed.' Both the US and Mexico are federal republiclics with presidential systems but the precise mechanisms are different and the salient issues are different between the two countries. Canada has an entirely different political system in that it is a constitutional monarchy with a parliament based on the Westminster tradition(i.e., elected lower house using first past the post and appointed upper house [senate in Canada, house of lords in the UK]).
The USA still has an incredible democratic track record of 235 years (admittedly for a long period there were serious democratic restrictions). Even another Trump presidency is extremely unlikely to destroy its democratic institutions. (But I agree that there are limits to everything.)
@@ronald3836 We still have a system where it's possible to not even win the plurality of the votes (Much less a majority) but win the highest office in government. Members of our state legislatures draw district lines which favor their own power. And because 235 years ago the constitution was written in such a way as to make it difficult to change then, impossible to change now there is no realistic way to fix the problems we have with our democracy. Our democracy is seriously flawed even if you remove Trump from the mix. With him in the mix it could become even worse.
In some countries the votes are so split up between the parties that everybody is forced into coalitions with 2 or even 3 parties. Thus, no one can really fulfill their promises because for EVERY decision you need a compromise. OR you have basically 2 parties like in the USA. So what a democracy that is when you only have 2 corrupt choices. Also democracy can be unbelievable slow which is a problem when decisions need to be made quickly (look at how slow Germany was during the Pandemic). A lot of people are bored or fed up with BS-talking politicians and feel their faith in democracy declining. Problem is: we don't have any better alternative as all other systems are even worse.
Greenland is so Democratic it can't be measured. Mainly cause the entire population is 4 penguins who vote by stacking pebbles in a box that says YEA or NAY, and all the voting topics involve eating fish.
In the UK, an unelected PM asked an unelected head of State to allow an unelected David Cameron in to an unelected upper house, to be foreign secretary. Don't tell me I live in a democracy.
I agree with the sentiment but it is somewhat misunderstanding the way our democracy works. Parliamentary democracy allows elected officials to form a government in their favour. It's the fault of Tory MPs not calling a vote of no confidence that's the issue. The house of lords and king bit is the sticker though.
A bit misleading, as they say in the video, democracy is not just about elections.However, although the case of the UK is complicated since you don't have a written constitution, the head of state doesn't need to be elected as he doesn't display any power, is just a symbol as the anthem or the flag. Your prime minister was elected by the parliament (and the parliament voted by people after the two previous where sacked, but Boris Jhonson was elected by a great majority, and Sunak will have to face elections soon.
Stimmt. Die mit den extremsten Positionen sind oft auch die lautesten. Ich hab jedenfalls noch nie jemanden "es ist komplizierter als es scheint" rumgrölen hören 😂
Democracy really is under threat, but not from the ones telling you they want to abolish democracy, but from the ones telling you they need to do this and that to protect democracy.
@@francisquebachmann7375I can if you're so inclined: The account made its comment only 9 hours after the initial video was posted. There's a lot of "political videos" on RU-vid so it usually takes a bit for the crawling trump bots to find them. But when the bot eventually finds a video (like this bot has), you'll notice that its account was made just 10 days ago on *Feb. 11, 2024,* almost like it was created for the sole purpose of spreading misinformation to further Trump's campaign and further muddy their distorted meaning of "fascism." Hope this helps!
It doesn't. That graph started above 4 for a valid Reason not due to sensationalism. It's how graphs work... Stop assuming graphs start at 0, that don't, they rarely ever do...
@@tomasvrabec1845 thank you for clarifying that. In 40 years of making statistics dance that had not occured to me. Of course this is not a weak attempt to make the changes appear much worse than they actually are.
Correct. Just want to point out that the US has been a flawed democracy for a long while. Maybe the malaise started with the supreme court decision that removed limits on party donations (by conservative judges of course). In the US far too many public offices are bought by corporations, even judges and sheriffs because the amount of donations you draw in has a huge influence on your election chances. Many Europeans think our lobby groups do the same but at least in Germany, France and Northern Europe it's orders of magnitude less corrupt. Then the 2-party system. For a long time there was a rather small difference between Republicans and Democrats. And now the US has only a single party that has sane people in it. Gerrymandering is at some places about as powerful as Putin's methods to guarantee election outcomes.
I'd say especially in the US. A man likely to be running in the next presidential election was the same person who helped incite a storming of government buildings!
Because people can see how much China, the UAE, even Saudi Arabia has developed over the last 40 years whereas the US and UK have degenerated and are complete international laughing stocks now
@@TheSandkastenverbot It isn't just corporations. The state bureaucracies of most "democratic" countries have basically assumed all real executive and legislative power. It doesn't matter who you elect, because the unelected bureaucrats have real de facto power.
and maybe thats a good thing, we could actually see the government be held responsible for once instead of just putting another selected bureaucrat on the throne to please the masses
There weren't any democracies in the 17th Century. Putin's Russia is a dictatorship, because Putin has cronies and allies everywhere, and everything is held together by corruption, this isn't democratic.
Historically, even in small tribes, there have always been hierarchies. In ancient societies the world was run on slavery, later on serfs, capitalism is that next economic step that rose during the industrial era. There are people working jobs, then there are the capitalist class who are landlords and owners of companies and they have the power and the sway over governments. Just like the nobility and the aristocrats
@@harku123 yeah, but specifically with democracy, what people class as democracy and how it's implemented has varied wildly, so we shouldn't be surprised that so many countries that claim to be democracies don't meet our standards.
@@jayrogan1835 , you still need hierarchy in a society. To what extent we make that hierarchy horizontal is a productive discussion one could have but doing it away all together is not even worth contemplating if we are going to have civil society.
How'd ya like the taste of DEMOCRACY! Side note, between political donations and the media being the loss making plaything of wealthy people with agendas, we're really not that far from 'managed democracy' anyways...
should be lower based on how little they cared about the voice referendum every electoral body but the capital told them no and they are still trying to implement it
If someone is wondering, in Pakistan, the opposition leader is not allowed to run because he married his wife when she was not divorced for required n days but instead n-3 days. Welcome to the clean country! (Clean country is what literally Pakistan means)
As a Canadian I need to ask, in what timeline is Canada’s democracy less flawed then the U.S. our government has significantly more power over the people of our country. If it’s true that we are a full democracy compared to the U.S. then I believe we might be screwed.
Because Canada and Europe are more "democratic-socialist". These "democracy" indexes are just a measure of how dem-soc your current government pretends to be.
the us doesnt claim to be a democracy and has a good number of states fighting "the democratic order" of course they would be less democratic as a fellow canadian i dont see how we even claim to have any form of democracy seeing as how other then the block quebecqua(frenchies however you spell it) our main parties are all pushing the exact same things only at differing rates.
Mostly these lefty social media news channels acting as a neutral media 😂 For reason modi in India did not even had to fought hard cuz his opponent is an nepotism by product the party which rule India for nearly60 years our of India's 77 years independence ! So its obvious people's now already move on from them ! This year that party will dissolve other new parties taking there place In India there is more than 2000 parties !
Most countries that are described as democracies are not democracies, they are republics or monarchies. Another key factor to consider is that countries that are democratic but not pro-western are going to be considered illegitimate democracies because the outcome in these countries are not going to result in a pro-western government.
@@asdv-gm4yy the United States of America is described as a democracy but is a Republic, the United Kingdom is described as a democracy but is a monarchy & Russia is democratic but isn't pro-western so it isn't considered a democracy despite Russia doing the same thing as the United States & the United Kingdom. The only requirement for a country to be a democracy is that the country is elected by the people so countries like the People's Republic of China or Islamic Republic of Iran are democracies.
Sorry but group political discussion has always been opaque. There hasn't been a time in history where it was public so saying whatsapp is a technological reason for this makes no sense. This has been the default for the entirety of history. What isn't the default is the speed at which we acquire and dispense new information nor the breadth of said information accessible
Well i don't know democracy declining maybe because every politician that selected somehow turned 180 the moment they took seats. Not to mention corpo/celeb/rich people felt like they can do anything without repercussions and above the law.
I hoping Britain is on the list. With the effective 2 party system we have and both being duplicates of each other, we can either vote for a party that wants to ban protest or a party that wants to ban protests.
What about Charlie?no one elected him yet he lives in the palace with your taxes while your people can barely feed themselves he also can suspend Parliament and chose the PM anytime.
What about Charlie?no one elected him yet he lives in the palace with your taxes while your people can barely feed themselves he also can suspend Parliament and chose the PM anytime.
In the map at 2:10 which highlights the "non-democracies": 1) First of all, not included are China and Russia (but Belarus is). Very curious; 2) Turkmenistan, which to my understanding is about the most authoritarian country on the planet, rivaling even North Korea, also is not included (it's the country immediately above Iran); 3) Many other curious omissions too numerous to detail. Also, there is seeming inconsistency. Gabon and Niger are not indicated as authoritarian on the map 2:10 but are on the map at 2:27.
Intro, 30 seconds in, in 2024 more voters than ever before, putting democracy to its greatest test. Weird, isn't people voting what democracy is about.
Can you check out this video about the US elections? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-61lR-Hux8Is.htmlsi=omQZJj-vfwczsbJ1 Very appreciated!
Yes, because rigged elections, uninformed voters, and military intervention aren’t issues at all. Woke People, am I right? Thinking they have basic human rights, how crazy is that?
Lots of places holding elections at the same time can pose some risks, so having one year with a whole bunch of people voting puts the strength of democracy to the test
Democracy is in decline basically because our educational system is still based on the model of the Industrial Revolution and it's completely outdated. In today's world, where you have all the information about the world available on your hands (incluind false information, lies, external propaganda and manipulations), with the exception of very few and sparce examples (like Finland or Estonia), you still have an education system that doesn't foster critical thinking, one of the most important things for democracy and the 21st century society/technology. There are only two ways to revive democracy: either we go again to the era of forums and small Internet bubbles (of the 00s) or we completely change the way we view education. If we continue with our path until now, we'll be all consumed by tyrants and go into a dystopia where people have no rights.
The main problem with democracy is that you can't really pursue long-term goals if left-wing and right-wing parties can't agree on stuff, and if political parties fail to agree over and over and nothing changes for years, people lose trust in democracy. Look at San Salvador, that country fixed its crime problem only thanks to a strong and smart dictator/president. I will always have the stance that a strong and smart dictator who cares about his country and people is the best form of governance, but finding this dictator is incredibly hard.
The solution to that is that people vote out the politicians that can't cooperate. That's the role of the masses in a democracy. But mass media has poisoned the well and now instead of picking capable politicians people are doing a popularity contest. Dictatorships aren't bad when you have the "right" person in it, but even if you have the right person in there, the wrong person evils their way into the position and corrupts the system. That's why it's bad. It's not about how it works when it works, but how it works when it doesn't. Broken democracy is far better than a bad dictatorship.
But the thing is that if you don't have democracy many dictators end up with dumb policies that will bite the country later, for example china's one child policy, so i think we need a middle beetwen these to to make a country more efficient
I don't really liek that exemple. That dictator did arrest a lot of people, but at the detriment of human rights and arresting a lot of innocents in the process. But the most problematic thing for me is that he probably won't do anything against poverty to try to make his campaign long-lasting, so either the gangs surge again, or San Salvador becomes a military dictatorship, both terrible options.
Salvador is an inferior example. Crime wasn't fixed in Salvador the government imprisoned thousands of people criminal and innocent and placed them in jail. The systemic reason for crime wasn't addressed. If the action was coupled with an action that would ensure a long-term crime reduction then that would improve the quality of this example. Still, thus far no plan has been implemented to reduce the attractiveness of the criminal lifestyle and the influence that rich cartels in the area have on the youth of Salvador. You claim that democracies can't pursue long-term goals which is in itself a false statement but then use the short-sighted solutions of a dictator as a counter point which completely contradicts your statement. Democracy is the best solution moving forward and a fantasy of some "smart dictator who cares about his country and people." is nothing short then a fantasy that in practice rarely happens because it doesn't work.
Very dissapointing to see the channel uncritically accept this incredibly flawed index. This index is fundamentally a cudgel for liberal definitions of democracy - the 'pluralism' as defined by these bodies always ultimately mean accepting 'pluralism' for far-right, pro-austerity, even fascist parties amd organisations while the 'civil liberties' invariably mean freedom for large business owners, foregin (often western) agencies and oligarchs to buy their positions of influence and power. These definitions narrow the perspective of democracy to hold up western liberal states as the perfect beacon of progress while demonising those societies that, while they do not accept political agitation by free market liberal forces nonetheless maintain some of the most truly grassroots, polular, and democratic systems in history. To rank the likes of Cuba, China or Vietnam alongside Eritrea, Russia, or Saudi Arabia is incredibly simplistic, and even offensive. To rank them even below the openly genocidal and apartheid Israeli entity, is frankly laughable. How is it possible that the hated Thai monarchy, the openly fascistic indian BJP, or the ultra-right Philippine political dynasties are merely "flawed democracies"? That Japan with its essentially one party system and the South Korean system which is essentially three corporations in a trenchcoat are "full democracies"? It's a crazy measure that only comes to these assertions because the 'elections' are done in a way that has been set up by western liberals to benefit themselves and their class - a methodology that the authors of the metric happen to agree with. liberalism is not the be all and end all arbiter of what democracy is, and to not even mention that this metric is HIGHLY debated is a serious oversight by the channel if not willfully malicious. Edit: also great to see that you have no issues citing freedom house, an open US state department think tank with direct funding from the CIA. No mention of potental bias there 👍
I know right, their basis in "democracy" is more on how friendly it is for business owners mostly for westerners. Japan and South Korea scored higher because it's popular and going against to what the wester audience perceive them would make it looked more "rigged". while Singapore is higher because they have easier business opportunities for western foreigners.
With thought process like this it's easy to understand why democracy is in decline. Anyone saying that Cuba or China are not at the bottom of the barrel is surely not pro-democracy as those countries don't have elections at all. Chinese "president" Xi wasn't voted in by the people but by the central committee. The members of this committee aren't elected either but appointed with approval by Xi. Also, freedom is also for those you don't like and it even includes economic freedoms for business.
That's not an invalid criticism, but it's worth noting that the United States is also listed as a flawed democracy, despite being much more "free" as defined by corporate freedom than, say, Norway (which ranks far above it,) and by far the most powerful and active proponent of neoliberal western hegemony. It's a flawed index but it's not naked propaganda.
Also, are you implying that China's political system is a popular grassroots democracy, or much freer than the US by most metrics? It's one thing to point out the hypocrisy of a nation being considered "free" while it crushes labour rights, oppresses people in occupied territories or engages in neocolonialism, it's quite another to call China "free."
Full democracy does not exist anywhere. What we have is a representative democracy where a group of people in a political party is elected to control the resources and write the laws of the nation as they see fit. A real democracy would be when everything has to be voted on by the whole population before any decision can be made. In my knowledge, that has never happened, because we rarely get to vote on anything that the politicians decide on. It would be nice to try it though, a direct democracy instead of a representative democracy would certainly remove the people who are in politics just to line their own pockets and the pockets of the corporations they make deals with. Politicians are only there to make it seem like we have a choice. And we all know deep down that that is not true. But we can take back that power, and i really hope we do someday soon.
You have a lot of bais. Western countries are not as perfect democracies as you make them out to be. In most of those countries, politicians have allowed very high illegal migration from islamic countries without ever asking their people. Polls clearly show most of the people are against illegal immigration. It is because those countries are corporatocracies not democracies.
Something to keep in mind is also who makes these indexes... After all the place/context it is being made in would to a degree bias its results, or at least the definition of democracy followed by the index. At the end of the day democracy has very different meanings in different parts of the world, contingent upon social context and political culture of each country
With all the 49.3, the police brutality, sometimes pans being forbidden as well as our liberty to freely demonstrate on the streets; the fact that France isn't at least YELLOW is mind boggling to me. During the Corona period, the Economist described it as a "failing democracy" and - trust me - it has gotten WORSE
maybe rising apathy and polarization are due to growing wealth inequality and social stratification. people feel less connected to those of different wealth brackets and interact with one another less. hence, the disconnect between regular folk and politicians and apathy toward authoritarianism.
Bingo. There’s only a few politicians which are hearing the people and responding to them, making the people want to get rid of the rest and get these people in power.
The extent of wealth inequality is mind-blowing. A quarter to you (25 cents) is the same proportion of a $50,000 wage as $100 is to a person making 20,000,000 per year. To someone making 20,000,000 per year paying someone $50,000/yr to do their chores is like you paying $125.
@@The_king567 For you? We’re talking about other people which are making their intentions clear. Your opinion really doesn’t matter as much as you think it does.
Well I'd say the EU. von der Leyen was parachuted in as EU Commission president by Merkel, faced no rival candidate in the farcical vote and is set to be crowned for a second term.
They're either approved or not approved, like SCOTUS appointees: "The European Council votes by qualified majority for a nominee for the post of President, taking account of the latest European elections. This proposal is then put before Parliament which must approve or veto the appointment. If an absolute majority of MEPs support the nominee, they are elected."
Democracy is a ground work for "hindu rastra". People are not familiar with the term Bharat or Hindusthan, which are used for the pre-colonized(1200AD) unified India.@@richmont9557
how are you gonna fuck up navalny’s name in the first 5 seconds? it’s not like he hasn’t been in the news everywhere for the past few days. it’s not a hard name to pronounce. show some credibility.
The US is not a very good democracy; The whole first past the line voting system means even if in a state 49% vote republican, they get no representation. More than 40% of Americans are under forty, yet only 4% of Congress is below 40. The old and the rich want to keep it that way, I mean the almost definite two candidates are far older than the suggested retiring age, for both parties.
According to this index Poland (where I live) is a flawed democracy. And yet in parlimental elections last year more voters took part (74.38%) than ever since 1989
The trouble with the index is that as well as objective criteria like voter participation it also has subjective criteria which are open to political bias.
India is not fully democratic but India have Free and fair elections, independent judiciary, incompetent yet alive opposition, right to protest and so on.
@@Fruitpunchsamurai-mb6le Not as much as we had 10 years back. India is slowly sliding towards autocracy. Hindu-fascism, conservatism and religion are to blame for this. On top of that, people are dumb as f#ck.
Democracy is overrated and especially in the age of instant gratification, it is bound to be extremely chaotic for the countries that have them. Democracy is overrated because firstly, politicians are only elected for a very short period of time, say 4-5 years. Therefore, political parties have very little incentive to make long term decisions as there is absolutely no guarantee that they will be in power after those 5 years. Furthermore, even if the political parties do try to pursue long term plans, the people can get very impatient as more often than not, the people want policies passed NOW rather than waiting 20 years for it to flourish so their children can enjoy the fruits. Furthermore, it only takes an opposition to be elected after 5 years of pursuing that long term policy for all of that progress to be overturned if the party doesn't like those long term plans. The result is that countries like China can build 10,000 kilometres in 10 years and countries like the UK not being able to even build 160 miles in 20 years. Another disadvantage of democracy is that everybody gets to vote on matters that they are not necessarily experts in or even understand. What's more sexy? Someone who has a manifesto which is like a wishlist saying that the problem is simple where one has to do "Just (insert some naïve solution) + other catchy soundbites" or some nuanced politician which has less sexy policies where it details the benefits and tradeoffs of pursuing such policies to be honest to the people. Obviously many people will choose the former as easy-sounding solutions make people emotionally cope better in a very chaotic democracy. Why try to understand the nuances of the problem when a politician says that the problem is actually extremely simple in their very sexy colourful manifesto? The result is that politics becomes more and more sloganised and nuance becomes dead. Another disadvantage of democracy is that a lot of time has to be dedicated to debating every single mjnute detail of the policy in spite of whether the party has been elected or not. In many countries where they have proportional representation, a lot of political capital and time is wasted on just being able to form a coalition. And even if the coalition does materialise, everything still has to be debated anyways. The end result is that very little gets done in the space of 4 or 5 years. Again, there is a reason why China built 10,000km + of railways and motorways in 10 years and Europe hasn't built anything close to that recently especially with regards to green infrastructure. I would say Western democracy only had an illusion of it being superior because much of its wealth it has in the first place comes from its past colonisation of other countries rather than the merits of democracy per se. For example, France/UK didn't get richer because of democracy but because much of its wealth is as a result of the stolen wealth of other countries during their colonial era (or with France their continued exploitation of the Sahel region with the CFA franc). For countries like Norway, Denmark and Sweden, these countries were already wealthy before they introduced their democratic State welfare system due and more recently due to the sovereign welath fund they created with their oil reserves. It has got nothing to do with democracy per se. Democracy is overrated and people have to stop treating it like some flawless God where anything is possible. Democracy is just a means to an end and not an end in and of itself.
Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Winston S Churchill.
So you're saying that every country should ditch democracy for some form of autocracy or dictatorship? Your views is making far right politicians do the happy dance.
@@ChadSimplicio , no I'm saying don't treat democracy like a God where anything is possible. Just because politicians are slow to do things compared to say China doesn't mean democracy is broken. Just because there is coalition chaos doesn't mean democracy is broken. Just because it takes ages to get policies past doesn't mean democracy is broken. That's all.
The way democracy was designed, at least in the US, was that the government simply deals with law enforcement, public utilities, and domestic and foreign defense. Due to this, all the other issues are yours to focus on and people flourished because they took their fate in their own hands. But now, all people can think about is how to fix their problems through the government. So yeah, it becomes as you said “what can you do for me in this short term”.
Democracy is undermined when people of their own volition vote into power such people as Trump, Erdogan, Modi, Duterte/Marcos, Bolsonaro etc. You get the government you deserve.
U have. No idea what INC was 😮 u have no idea ! AFTER BJP we literally saw India growing ! I'm 26 year old I saw equally both parties rules very closely !
Politics means money and power, even in the most democratic countries. What do people with power want? Yes, keeping their power, and more power! Today, politicians are fully redundant. We don't need them. Technology enables us to directly represent ourselves, and make all decisions via direct voting. So, our interest would be retiring all politicians, parties, parliaments, and hire a government which executes decisions made by us directly. But, this is just a pipe dream. Politicians won't let go of their power. They won't allow changing existing structure, and establish a new one. As in democratic countries we do have a say about this, they push back by moving towards dictatorship, where they don't have to give a damn about the opinion of the citizens. This will either end up in a new feudal era, where a few families will have all the power, both political and economic, or there will be revolutions killing these people and burning everything - out of desperation. But, in no versions of the future will democracy prevail. Our future looks grim.
It's hard to think of the US as having a good score on this scale as long as there's no voter ID laws in place that would prevent non citizens from voting in the election
Idk where you live but you certainly need to be able to identify yourself. At least here in NY. If your name isn't in the system then you won't be voting. Idk how it is in other parts of the country.
