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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

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Fewer people now say representative democracy is a very good way to govern in many countries surveyed.

www.pewresearch.org

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Representative Democracy Remains a Popular Ideal, but People Around the World Are Critical of How It’s Working
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A 24-country survey finds a median of 59% are dissatisfied with how their democracy is functioning, and 74% think elected officials don’t care what people like them think.

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    Bu what metric does that system work though? It’s hard to judge it because the info is all unreliable and the government doesn’t share data. We don’t know how bad or good wealth inequality is there.

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      I answered your question but you didn’t answer mine.

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      By what metric does the US system work?

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        Standard of living is relatively high in the U.S.

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          Is that because of bourgeois representative democracy, or because of the imperialist exploitation of the global south?

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              What are you talking about? China is not imperialist

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