• macrocarpa
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    26 hours ago

    I had a look at the list and they’re not on the list,.like.wll the other countries that aren’t on the list.

    I hope that helps? Just reiterating, the list that you’re looking at doesn’t have all the countries in the world. It’s a short list of countries.

    I mean you could look at it and say oh wow that’s six of the G7 countries, which are considered the countries which largely steer 'western" democracy and have done for the last 50 odd years, plus sweden, which is widely considered to be the most progressive western democracy, and try to work out why one of the countries on that list is so ass backwards in its social welfare.

    But maybe it’d be easier to draw a comparison between that and Russia, which is a thinly veiled dictatorship and was booted out of the G8 10 years ago when it annexed Crimea, and China, which is literally ruled by the Chinese communist party. Those are two very valid and worthwhile comparisons to America, the world’s leading liberal democracy.