umdoistressilvaquatro
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I love when people come up with rantings from random organizations without even knowing from where those indexes come from, so that their opinion sounds more objective and fact-based.You have over-simplified views, IMO. Until proven adversely, Mr. Trump is the democratically elected President of USA. The fact that you don't like him doesn't make him a tyrant. In a democracy, people try to persuade other people that President is bad for the Country.
Beside that, medice cura te ipsum : USA is #21 in the democratic index rating. Brazil is at #51. The lower in the scale the less democratic.
"As described in the report, the democracy index is a weighted average based on the answers of 60 questions, each one with either two or three permitted alternative answers. Most answers are "experts' assessments"; the report does not indicate what kinds of experts, nor their number, nor whether the experts are employees of the Economist Intelligence Unit or independent scholars, nor the nationalities of the experts. Some answers are provided by public-opinion surveys from the respective countries." From the wikipedia article on the index.
So basically, you go around asking the american people and (probably american) non-specified specialists what are their impressions on the country, and try to treat that subjective data as an objective description of reality...
Let's get the facts objective. In Brazil, we vote directly for the executive, not for shady electors who can second-guess the popular sovereignty of thousands. The election result need no confirmation from Congress, they can't simply throw away popular sovereignty. We have direct democracy on health issues through the health councils. We have more than thirdy political parties. You can vote in the party you most identify with every time, because strategical voting is unnecessary in the two rounds + proportional system. In the last 7 elections we had 4 different parties gaining the presidential office. There are absolutely no brazilian citizen imprisioned for informing their fellow citizens of the actions of their government (like happened to Manning). The voting day is a holiday, and companies can be fined for forcing voters to work. We don't cut the voting rights of prisoners and former felons. It is unconstitutional to deny citizens basic rights (like healthcare). Companies have restrictions on campaign donations, and this is not considered a limitation on their free-speech rights (companies are not considered people). Sure, we don't have a long history of democracy (our first post-dictatorship election was in 1990), but you are grossly misinformed if you think we are worst off in terms of how democratic we are compared with USA.