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Related: About this forumDr. Keith Ablow: Let's Invade Everywhere for the Sake of Democracy!
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Its time for an American jihad
By Dr. Keith Ablow | Published October 28, 2014
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An American jihad would reawaken in American citizens the certain knowledge that our Constitution is a sacred document that better defines and preserves the liberty and autonomy of human beings than the charter of any other nation on earth.
The Constitution, along with the miracle of our nation's founding and the providential history of America fighting and winning war after war against oppressive regimes, proves our manifest destiny not only to preserve our borders and safety and national character at home, but to spread around the world our love of individual freedom and insist on its reflection in every government.
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We would accept the fact that an American jihad could mean boots on the ground in many places in the world where human rights are being denigrated and horrors are unfolding. Because wherever leaders and movements appear that seek to trample upon the human spirit, we have a God-given right to intervene because we have been to the mountaintop of freedom, and we have seen the Promised Land spanning the globe.
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We the People of the United States are good and we are right. And we need the spirit of an American jihad to properly invite, intensify and focus our intentions to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution here at home, and to seek to spread its principles abroad.
Source: www foxnews com/opinion/2014/10/28/its-time-for-american-jihad/
Apparently, Keith has been "psychiatrin' " too hard and has lost touch with the last decade or so of life in the USA. Seemingly, he has learned nothing about invading countries and attempting to convert said countries to democracy. Strangely too, in the his piece, France, Sweden and Germany are not nearly democratic enough for Dr. Ablow.
Of course, the USA has the greatest democracy that the world has ever seen. That clearly goes without saying.
However, is the world willing to admit this? One might wonder just how the world sees the USA's exceptional democracy.
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As it turns out, there is an organization that has attempted to study the functioning of democracies and governments worldwide. This group is the Democracy Ranking Association (Förderung von Demokratiequalität) and is based in Vienna, Austria.
One may see their staff here:
One may read about their methodology here:
The Democracy Ranking relies on the following conceptual formula for quality of democracy:
Quality of Democracy = (freedom & other characteristics of the political system) & (performance of the non-political dimensions).
Concept and method: The Democracy Ranking model refers to one political dimension and five non-political dimensions, which are: (1) gender (socio-economic and educational gender equality); (2) economy (economic system); (3) knowledge (knowledge-based information society, research and education); (4) health (health status and health system); (5) environment (environmental sustainability). To every dimension different indicators are assigned, therefore the dimensions behave as indicator-based. All indicators are transformed to a value range of 1 to 100, where 1 represents the weakest (poorest) and 100 the strongest (best) value. For every individual Democracy Ranking release, the used indicators are being specifically (and again) re-transformed to the value range from 1 to 100. Therefore, when results of different Democracy Rankings are compared, scores can deviate, only the ranking positions stay constant.
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Comprehensive gender dimension: Because gender indicators with a political orientation are assigned to the political dimension, the political dimension already contains gender information. Out of an interest of wanting to know what a possible ranking pattern of a broader gender dimension might be, the Democracy Ranking calculates a comprehensive gender dimension (a so-called seventh dimension). The ranking scores of that comprehensive gender dimension are also documented, however, they do not impact the aggregated ranking of the Democracy Ranking. The comprehensive gender dimension is based as an aggregation on the following indicators with the following weight measures (see also Comprehensive Scoreboards in the Ranking Excel Files): Global Gender Gap Report 20%; Political Rights (Freedom House) 15%; Civil Liberties (Freedom House) 15%; life expectancy at birth, female (years) 16.67%; labor force, female (% of total labor force) 8.33%; and unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 8.33%. All the other indicators are weighted equally with 4.17%: primary education, pupils (% female); school enrollment, secondary, female (% gross); school enrollment, secondary, female (% net); school enrollment, tertiary, female (% gross).
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http://democracyranking.org/wordpress/?page_id=590
Quality of Democracy = (freedom & other characteristics of the political system) & (performance of the non-political dimensions).
Concept and method: The Democracy Ranking model refers to one political dimension and five non-political dimensions, which are: (1) gender (socio-economic and educational gender equality); (2) economy (economic system); (3) knowledge (knowledge-based information society, research and education); (4) health (health status and health system); (5) environment (environmental sustainability). To every dimension different indicators are assigned, therefore the dimensions behave as indicator-based. All indicators are transformed to a value range of 1 to 100, where 1 represents the weakest (poorest) and 100 the strongest (best) value. For every individual Democracy Ranking release, the used indicators are being specifically (and again) re-transformed to the value range from 1 to 100. Therefore, when results of different Democracy Rankings are compared, scores can deviate, only the ranking positions stay constant.
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Comprehensive gender dimension: Because gender indicators with a political orientation are assigned to the political dimension, the political dimension already contains gender information. Out of an interest of wanting to know what a possible ranking pattern of a broader gender dimension might be, the Democracy Ranking calculates a comprehensive gender dimension (a so-called seventh dimension). The ranking scores of that comprehensive gender dimension are also documented, however, they do not impact the aggregated ranking of the Democracy Ranking. The comprehensive gender dimension is based as an aggregation on the following indicators with the following weight measures (see also Comprehensive Scoreboards in the Ranking Excel Files): Global Gender Gap Report 20%; Political Rights (Freedom House) 15%; Civil Liberties (Freedom House) 15%; life expectancy at birth, female (years) 16.67%; labor force, female (% of total labor force) 8.33%; and unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 8.33%. All the other indicators are weighted equally with 4.17%: primary education, pupils (% female); school enrollment, secondary, female (% gross); school enrollment, secondary, female (% net); school enrollment, tertiary, female (% gross).
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http://democracyranking.org/wordpress/?page_id=590
So, do they admit that the USA is the world's greatest democracy?
... Umm ... Something's really wrong here. ... They think that we're ... ????? NUMBER 15 !?!?!?
Democracy Ranking 2013
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http://democracyranking.org/wordpress/ranking/2013/data/Scores_of_the_Democracy_Ranking_2013_letter.pdf
- Norway
- Sweden
- Finland
- Switzerland
- Denmark
- Netherlands
- Germany
- New Zealand
- Austria
- Belgium
- Ireland
- Australia
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- United States
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http://democracyranking.org/wordpress/ranking/2013/data/Scores_of_the_Democracy_Ranking_2013_letter.pdf
Apparently, Austria needs to be invaded first!
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Dr. Keith Ablow: Let's Invade Everywhere for the Sake of Democracy! (Original Post)
xocet
Oct 2014
OP
Keith NEEDS a psychiatrist, he's in some serious mental deficit arena.
Dont call me Shirley
Oct 2014
#1
Kudos for the information at the bottom, could do so without spreading the insanity of Herr Ablow
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#2
OK, Let's start by invading Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, Kansas, Ohio and Texas
Jack Rabbit
Oct 2014
#3
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)1. Keith NEEDS a psychiatrist, he's in some serious mental deficit arena.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. Kudos for the information at the bottom, could do so without spreading the insanity of Herr Ablow
and his racist, fascist cable channel.
You should always post something like this to accompany any utterance of these human monsters that walk and talk among us:
They do not care if they are mocked, they relish it, in their twisted minds it is good enough to run for President just to annoy "the haters".
Please give them what they abhor the most, the cold shoulder.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)3. OK, Let's start by invading Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, Kansas, Ohio and Texas
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)4. Mission accomplished
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)5. He's quite mad, you know.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)6. "sacred" "miracle" "manifest destiny" "insist"
That's all I need to hear.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)7. Feeling all warm and fuzzy hearing that!
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)8. Whats his deep psychological reason for wanting to look like a Penis?