[grzm]

Would you expand on this? Are you implying that the US isn't perfect in its civil rights in practice? Is actively against civil rights? Values civil rights and wants to improve? Had in the past huge disparities in civil rights and was still stable at those times?

[toor2]

I was mainly referring to the civil rights practices of the United States in the past (i.e. Slavery, segregation, lack of suffrage for women, etc).

The United States functioned just fine as a democracy when well over half of it's population was lacking basic rights. Civil rights aren't required in a democracy as long as a portion of the population (classically white males in the US) has the right to vote.

[grzm]

Gotcha. There's nuance in this answer that wasn't obvious to me in your first comment. Thanks for expanding.