CheeseSnackistan wrote:Will this proposal (or any of the others), if implemented, alter our nation's trend lines? Right now, both our political freedoms and civil rights are "World Benchmark," and we have striven for many years to achieve/maintain those designations. It would be most frustrating, to say the very least, to have to re-achieve those designations if these proposals throw them off.
I am also curious about this change. I was at essentially Zero and while I agree that the rescaling is necessary (due largely in part to the vast number of nations who revel in their authoritarian status) I would be very disappointed to see a dip in my trend.