Hong Kong media article: US May Move from non-domination to Civil War
America fell below the "threshold for democracy"

The United States has long prided itself on being the world's longest-running "democracy." Has always been, of course, also there is a debate: since the past has a lack of universal suffrage in the United States (of slavery and Jim Crow laws, systemic exclusion ethnic minorities to participate in the voting, etc.), then from the word "democracy" of the contemporary sense, the history of the United States until recently is a history of "democracy"?

Even if we ignore all this, a global data series called "Polity" has stripped the United States of its long-standing title of "democracy." This oft-cited data series, funded by America's Central Intelligence Agency, measures other countries on a quantitative scale from "complete dictatorship" to "complete democracy".

The Polity data series is one of three widely used data series in American political science and polling research. It is maintained by a Political Instability Task Force set up and funded by the CIA.

According to a recent analysis of the "Polity" data series by the Center for Systematic Peace, the United States is now a non-ruling state, sometimes called an "illiberal democracy" or a "mixed regime state" (part "democratic", part "authoritarian"). Quantitatively, a non-dominant state is in the middle of a numerical scale with "full dictatorship" at one end and "full democracy" at the other.

"On the 'regime' scale, the United States fell below the 'democracy threshold' (+6 points) in 2020 and is considered a non-dominated country," the center's findings said. It also lost its title as the world's oldest continuous' democracy '... Further degradation of America's 'democratic' authority will trigger 'adverse regime change' events."