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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Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

Actually democracy is just that, just voting. And that is what is both right and wrong with it.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Subsumedpat Who is allowed to vote, what information they have access to and what power that vote has are variable.

Even things you or I would recognise as dictatorships have 'elections'. Russia s technically a democracy. Its a spectrum and there are many factors.