Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

👉 Remark: The article is about the U.S. and Europe, despite the title.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The U.S. Constitution is total shit and should be completely scrapped and re-written. The problem is I don’t trust any of these partisan fools in congress to be educated enough to draft a new one.

    The fervent worship of the founding fathers and the document itself as a holy-adjacent collective/artifact is absolutely why we have problems adapting our laws to the 21st century.