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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by tromp on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:14AM (#40535460)
The U.S. is a democracy, albeit a deficient one rather than a working one [1]. At least is the least deficient one amongst those.

[1] https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by yencabulator on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:50AM (#40535943)
No, that would be Uruguay.

And for context, the ranking says USA is the 36th most democratic country, which is pretty darn low if you ask me.

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by tromp on Friday May 31, 2024 @12:36PM (#40537214)
Darn; overlooked that one hiding in the middle of all these Working Democracies.
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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by em-bee on Saturday June 01, 2024 @05:39PM (#40549291)
apparently by 2023 it got upgraded to working:

https://www.democracymatrix.com/online-analysis/matrix#/char...

after further looking it turns out that it was also categorized as working before 2020 and after 2020. the difference being 0.01 points. in 2020 it took a dive in rules settlement and implementation for which there is an obvious culprit: covid.

https://www.democracymatrix.com/online-analysis/country#/Uni...

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