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685327594 t1_ituvfmd wrote

Liz Truss and Mario Draghi both lost their jobs this month..

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LeroyoJenkins t1_ituy091 wrote

> Respondents were asked whether they would say things in their country are going in the right direction or have gone off on the wrong track.

This doesn't make any sense for Switzerland, to the point that it is risible.

The "Leader" isn't actually a leader. It is just a Primus inter pares cerimonial position, which each member of the Federal Council (which collectively is the actual head of the executive power and the head of state) holds for a year, based on a rotation.

It confers no additional powers, and only someone who has no idea how the Swiss political system works would consider them "leader of the country".

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Crapital_Prunishment t1_itv07fj wrote

I kind of think the U.S. needs to adopt this kind of rotation. We have this massive problem of being forced to vote for the lesser of two evils. My opinion is that biggest reason we have this problem is that we give power to those who campaign for it. It takes a level of narcissism to decide to be a public figure. Narcissists are attracted to power, Thus American politics is filled with sociopaths who want to monetize suffering.

Not every American politician is like this, but enough are, that it makes it very easy to generalize and get turned off of politics altogether. Which is still a win for the sociopaths.

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Wenuven t1_itv0i8n wrote

This is a misleading graphic and statement.

Mexico and Brazil are not entirely representative of the diversity within Latin America where several countries are facing sincere issues of political identity and public trust.

Two out of upwards of 29 countries is representative of Latin America?

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UnadvertisedAndroid t1_itv0weh wrote

I'm not familiar with Indian politics, so this is a genuine question: Is it a democracy like Russia's democracy, or a real democracy (such that they exist at all)?

ETA Thank you for the downvote, I guess have my answer.

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coberh t1_itv117x wrote

Gridlines are too faint and should be finer resolution. Also consider putting numbers into each leader row. Plus a date, because things change...

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LeroyoJenkins t1_itv1hdh wrote

>I kind of think the U.S. needs to adopt this kind of rotation.

It is more complicated than that. The Federal Council has 7 members, from ALL significant parties. It is also based on collegialism: all members of the Council have to stand behind its decisions, no matter how they voted internally.

In the US, this would be, picking a random example, like having a Federal Council with Trump, MTG, Ted Cruz, Biden, Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and Schumer.

And after the council voted on forgiving student debt, Ted Cruz would have to go and publicly announce that the council voted to forgive student debt, why that is the right thing to do and why he defends it - even if he personally is against it.

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tomveiltomveil t1_itv1lz5 wrote

The "MOST POPULAR" in the title text is inaccurate. This is just a selection of major countries. I'm quite confident that there are numerous other world leaders who are more popular than, say, Liz Truss.

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UnadvertisedAndroid t1_itv1rcy wrote

I'm completely confused by UK politics. Was she appointed by Queen Elizabeth II right before her death? The new guy was appointed by King Charles, so I'm confused because Truss really isn't the kind of person I could see the Queen thinking was a good choice.

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UnadvertisedAndroid t1_itv64c8 wrote

Thank you, that was very informative. I guess Russia is only perceived as a defacto dictatorship because it's so large and has nukes, so ignoring them is very dangerous. I'd have scored them closer to 0.0 personally until reading that.

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FUEGO40 t1_itv9dxk wrote

It’s sad to see AMLO have such a high approval rating, I hope one day the average citizen has a better understanding of what’s truly good for the nation

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micha-lmxt t1_itvmyuj wrote

How is that thing sorted? Neither by the reds, not the blues?

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SuperRosca t1_itvs02v wrote

Same for Brazil, Jair is literally a corrupt, far-right moron that constantly promotes violence and made it very clear that he wants another militar dictatorship to happen here and has stolen BILLIONS of R$ but brainwashed catholics keep voting for him.

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vt2022cam t1_itw9w6a wrote

I suspect Peru, Chile, Argentina and many other LatAm countries might paint a different picture.

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jrystrawman t1_itwopyh wrote

Those two countries represent well over half of Latin America by population and economy though. Any ‘narrative’ about Latin America must run through Mexico and Brazil.

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BARATHEON96 t1_itwq5ae wrote

There is one thing I've learned about Latin America. The more things change the more they stay the same. Ditto for Russia. They can have another civil war and a revolution and in 20 years they will still be corrupt dysfunctional nations. Anyone know why?

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jrystrawman t1_itxi8ge wrote

No; not at all, because China and Turkey don’t represent half of Asian population or GDP... Turkey is relatively insignificant with a population less than 100million in a continent of 3billion.

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vexkov t1_itygfue wrote

Bolsonaro has 36% approval not close to 50

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frontera_power t1_itzaprt wrote

Narcissism and never admitting errors is a good way to maintain popularity.

Lopez-Obrador and Bolsonaro are both shitty leaders, but still maintain a pretty big following.

Donald Trump still has his core of supporters, despite being incompetent.

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