Democracy falls in majority of countries worldwide – DW – 09/11/2025
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A new report has found serious concerns about the state of global democracy as more countries slip in democratic performance.

A new report has found serious concerns about the state of global democracy as more countries slip in democratic performance.

Global patterns show that democracy around the world continued to weaken last year, according to a new report.

The Global State of Democracy 2025, published by the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), analyzed democratic performance in 173 countries in 2024.

In the report, 94 countries — or just over half of those surveyed — showed a decline in at least one of the key democracy indicators between 2019 and 2024, the report said. In comparison, only a third made progress.

  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    For me the wisdom is that for all the good a strong federal government could do, it inevitably was going to be used for ill and we are seeing that play out in real time. Which is what traditional republicans always said.

    But to a point I do think the founding sin was writing in the constitution that all men are created equal and still allowing slavery. Many (if not most? I’m not sure here I know they all owned slaves as that was the thing to do at the time) who signed that paper knew that this sin would destroy the union and it’s obvious they were right because all of American history has been the shockwaves of allowing slavery instead of making it illegal from the very beginning, and to this day it is still playing out. Thats what happens when you weave in contradictions into the foundation of your country, event those contradictions cannot coexist.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      But it’s not like ills that are just as bad and worse haven’t and won’t continue to happen without a strong federal government. A weak federal government leads to Shay’s rebellion, rise of the KKK, gilded age, great depression, etc. Someone needs to be in charge and if they don’t step into the vacuum bigots and business will.

    • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      For me the wisdom is that for all the good a strong federal government could do, it inevitably was going to be used for ill

      Absolutely.

      But to a point I do think the founding sin was writing in the constitution that all men are created equal and still allowing slavery…all of American history has been the shockwaves of allowing slavery instead of making it illegal from the very beginning, and to this day it is still playing out.

      Definitely. So much so that many people today directly associate greater state autonomy with the institution of slavery, as though if states were granted even slightly more autonomy, slavery would inevitably return and that they two things cannot exist without one another.