I agree, white people aren't having enough children
It's misleading in at least four obvious ways, but that never stops the democracy scientists from pushing the Great Democratic Threat narratve https://x.com/postpostpostr/st...
And the actual report confirms what @postpostpostr says: most of this comes from India-- the only reason to frame this in terms of population, rather than countries, is because nobody would care otherwise
@postpostpostr Bring 👏 back 👏 colonialism 👏 Nigerians 👏 can't 👏 govern 👏 themselves
Yes, but that would require a subnational measurement of democracy. And we know how good the democracy scientists are at measuring at lower levels of aggregation https://x.com/HMBrough_/status...
Turns out most of the great reversion to 'closed autocracy', the bottom tier of the ordinal democracy scale, is Africa plus the West's expensive, twenty-year democracy-building effort falling apart
Really, the whole point of these reports-- dozens of people and millions of dollars for a smirk-- is to make these graphs. Just one Western country is backsliding, all from 2016-2020, and it's made clear it has nothing to do with covid. Hmm
And this one, too. Sure they don't define polarization or why that would be bad for a competitive democracy, but they do tell you it's "toxic". Very scientific to invent nonsensical concepts that fit present-day linguistic trends and scream them at people
Oh lord, I apologize, it's worse than not defining polarization; apparently it's Jason Stanley-tier social identity theory. We need to gulag the 101 level social psychologists with ggplot
Democracy Line Graph Scientists moving the hands closer to "Literally Nazi Germany" on a big clock while periodically casting a disapproving glance at the audience
It helps to make things up-- that gender equality is a "fundamental aspect to democracy" would puzzle, well, the founders of democracy. Oh, climate change, maybe this is about ends
V-Dem is one of the more useless major datasets in political science, yet it has the most manpower by far. No future in institutionalized social science-- I've been on five-man teams who accomplished more in a few months than this massive, multi-year brain-drain
@knrd_z half this chart is India falling below 0.5 on the Democracy Scale
@knrd_z “trivialize democratic erosion” How can I trivialize a thing you just made up?