Is democracy incrementally dying ?

This is question about worldwide politics. By democracy, I don't just mean voting; I mean independence of media, judiciary and the right to dissent etc. The most extreme examples of this happening are in Poland, Hungary, Turkey and Venezuela. Even in the West we have the NSA and GCHQ overriding privacy rights (with dangerous potential) in the name of security. The Euro-zone imposes economic policy on Greece by specifically saying that money and supranational agreements by previous governments count more than democratic autonomy.

This Paul Mason article is interesting:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/31/democracy-dying-people-worried-putin-erdogan-trump-world

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firefall · 61-69, M

I think Mason is pushing that way too far, in suggesting that it's a [i]concerted [/i]effort. There's no conspiracy here, it's just railroading time & the atmosphere is right.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@firefall Mason is often good but he makes a lot of big points in his writing, some of which are dubious. I am not sure he believes there is a conspiracy though. He would see it as neo-liberalism's adaptation to the nationalist right.