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Herman Myrick| The Gaston Gazette

Losing control of his subjects is the despot dictators worst nightmare. This same fear haunts the kings, military strong men, and other autocrats who rule 119 of the earths 193 member countries of the United Nations.

An article dated Feb. 10, 2022, at bloombergnews.com states that, of the 196 nations or territories of the world, 167 were surveyed by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Index of 2021, and were rated as follows:

Of the 167 nations surveyed, 74 are listed as democracies. Just 21 were deemed to be full democracies, representing 6.4% of the worlds population, while 53 countries were listed as flawed democracies.

By total populations, the study found that the percentage of the earths people living under some semblance of democracy fell from 49 to 45 percent.

Democracy in the world is in decline and the USA is contributing to that decline. According to the Bloomberg article, the United States is now considered a flawed democracy and fell one spot to number 26 among the 74 full or flawed democracies.

The worst autocracies of the Bloomberg/EIU INDEX 2022, were Afghanistan, Myanmar, and North Korea.

America was once the envy of the earth. But now, news from America arms dictators, kings, and other autocrats with enough grist for their propaganda mills to convince their imprisoned populations that in America, people with too much freedom are going mad.

Around the world, the USA is giving democracy a bad name.

In a similar study posted online in 2020 by democracymatrix.com, the United States was ranked 36th and classified as a deficient democracy among 83 working or deficient democracies worldwide.

As a matter of information, the highest rated working democracies are Norway, New Zealand, and Finland. The worst rated hard autocracies by democracymatrix.com in 2020 were Yemen, North Korea, and Eritrea.

It is worth noting that as Christianity and church membership has declined in America, so has our standing in the world. Blessed is the nation whose God is the lord…. (Psalms 33:12)

Herman Myrick is a resident of Belmont.

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