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Your statements are pretty much emotional with very limited factual input and very limited demonstration of understanding how modern government work. Did any of you take a world government or history class at high school or college level? Let me bring some data – yes, it is imperfect, but this is what I found:
There is a democracy index computed per country that only goes 20 years back. Israel went from 7.2 to 7.8 (it was 8.0 2 years ago), while US went down from 8.2 to 7.8 and they are matching as of 2024 …
By component:
Israel is at top 9.6 on electoral process and 9.4 on political participation (US slightly lower)
but only 5.6 on civil liberties (Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, US 8.5 ), 6.9 on political culture (US 6.2) , and 7.5 on functional government (better than US 6.5)
other than civil liberties, Israel and US have very similar profile
to summarize for both countries: high participation in politics, but low culture and results.
