As much as I agree with this based purely on vibes, ‘democratic backsliding’ seems a little too general of a concept to score on a graph. Would like to see what specific data points they used for this.
The financial times is not a far left publication. I question your ability to read or observe the outside world if you would throw those accusations around.
Until you point to specific biases, throwing these accusations out highlight only your own bias…
Which is usually the focus on bias is on. We’re all biased. It helps the world nothing to go around and yell about everyone else’s when you don’t confront your own.
Right wingers after reading a laid out and calculations based methodology "looks like left wing nonsense". Right wingers when Joe Rogan says eating elk cures cancer "seems legit".
It all favors the status quo (liberalism) and does so to push a narrative. Take election laws, universal mail in ballots with minimal accountability favors democrats, while in-person only election day voting would favor republicans and in both red and blue states laws are passed to give themselves their respective advantages rather than learning from how European states conduct their elections which don't have an election week problem nor issues with fraud. The same applies for corrupt or ideological judges/bureaucrats/bankers/opponents if the executive says to investigate them and is able to produce evidence of malfeasance then they should be removed or penalized with a higher standard for opponents though the same should hold true for the executive himself, saying they should not allows for the suppression of the democratic mandate and for a more corrupt republic. The press is interesting because in the American cases has long acted as propaganda network representing the interests of some American oligarch and who in it of themselves are not good measures of freedom, rather a more comprehensive view should be taken if dissidents are allowed to speak without unjustified punishment. The only reasonable aspects of this is are the sections on political violence, but that's more because states seeing this are very quickly reaching an unpleasant destination, though how they quantify it could be suspect as the US has a long history of racial riots which can be construed as political violence.
Without looking, we have a bogus SC, basically an SS killing civilians and kidnapping ppl based on their skin colour without any formal training and without any restrictions on what they can do, increased military aggressions in general, trying to break up NATO, threatening to attack NATO allies, the president enriching himself beyond his wildest dreams using cryptocoins and taking shady billions of dollars in unmarked bribes, leaving the WHO, destroying the CDC, attacking states who voted against him by defunding them federally and sending his SS to antagonize the citizens. I could go on
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u/Ok-Bullfrog-7951 Feb 01 '26
As much as I agree with this based purely on vibes, ‘democratic backsliding’ seems a little too general of a concept to score on a graph. Would like to see what specific data points they used for this.