Hong Kong media article: US May Move from non-domination to CivilWarAmerica fell below the “threshold for democracy’
The United States has long prided itselfon beina the world’s longest-running“democracy” Hasalwavs been, of course, also there is a debate: since the pasthas a lack of universal suffrage in theUnited States (of slavery and Jim Crowlaws, systemic exclusion ethnic minorities to participate inthe voting, etc),then from the word “demnocracy” of the contemporary sense, the history oftheUnited States until recently is a history of “democracy”?Even if we ignoreall this. a global data series called “polity has stripped the United States ofitslong-standing title ofdemocracy’This oft-cited data series, funded byAmerica’s Centrantelligence Agency, measures other countries on aquantitative scale from “complete dictatorshipto “complete democracy