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>What I find frustrating with discussions like these is that many Americans seem content with the claim that America is a democracy without examining the reality, meaning the chance for improvement there is slim.

Well it's not just the Americans claiming that America is a democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

Your idea of what the US is like seems to be a mosaic of viral clickbait loosely tethered to reality

[Matl]

The index you linked to is published by The Economist, a major pro-capitalist oligarchy mag, you citing it as objective is like when the IDF investigates itself.

Yet even they admit the US is far from a full democracy. It's kind of like the Roman Republic. Was that more of a democracy than the Roman Empire? Yes. Was it a truly participatory democracy? No.

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>The index you linked to is published by The Economist, a major pro-capitalist oligarchy mag, you citing it as objective is like when the IDF investigates itself.

They are consistently anti-Trump.

If they're so horrifically biased towards capitalism, why do they rank Sweden over the US?

Again, you're basically just a conspiracy theorist throwing darts at a board blindfolded. You don't have anything to say about the methodology of this index, or an alternative index you prefer and why. You're just making bold assertions based on clickbait you read.