Trying to figure out if they recognize the US is so bad it finally warrants as a flawed democracy by their own warped metrics, or if there’s a party bias and they’re calling the US flawed because they don’t like how much power the other side has in their country…
Oh they do. Even funnier, I bet some of them realize the “authoritarian” countries happen to be ones not under the economic control of Europe or the US, but as soon as they show a trickle of self-awareness I bet they shut it down.
Trying to figure out if they recognize the US is so bad it finally warrants as a flawed democracy by their own warped metrics, or if there’s a party bias and they’re calling the US flawed because they don’t like how much power the other side has in their country…
The U.S. was demoted from full to flawed in 2016 if that helps you decide.
I think they genuinely believe these rankings
Oh they do. Even funnier, I bet some of them realize the “authoritarian” countries happen to be ones not under the economic control of Europe or the US, but as soon as they show a trickle of self-awareness I bet they shut it down.
That one meme of Principal Skinner.
It also gives them plausible deniability. If you pint out an inconsistency they can say that they’re “unbiased”
True. Though, considering Europe - and especially Scandinavia - is deepest blue, I wonder if the source is just European.
Actually just looked it up. Statista is German, lmao.