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Strongman Leaders More Trusted than Democrats in Developing World

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-sausage dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Authoritarian leaders are seen as far more trustworthy than politicians in more openly democratic countries across the emerging world, according to data compiled by the World Economic Forum.

Leaders in Singapore, the Gulf states and Rwanda are rated as having the highest ethical standards in the emerging markets, closely followed by their Chinese and central Asian counterparts.

In contrast, politicians in democracies such as Brazil, Paraguay, Nigeria, Mexico and Romania are seen as exhibiting the lowest ethical standards.

Overall, among the 20 emerging market countries rated as having the most trustworthy politicians in the 2016 survey, 13 are rated as "not free" by Freedom House, a US government-funded non-governmental organisation, with three classed as partly free and just four classed as free.

Among the 20 emerging markets whose politicians are seen as having the lowest ethical standards, not one is classed by Freedom House as not free, with six free and 14 partly free.

https://www.ft.com/content/79d1ce36-8ca9-11e6-8aa5-f79f5696c731

Might be paywalled, but I got in using my normal combination of noscript, self-destructing cookies, and referrer spoofing (from google.com).

Text without charts: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2016/10/1823541-polls-show-low-approval-of-the-ethical-standards-of-leaders-in-latin-america.shtml

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:16PM (#416112)

    Here's your USA strongman saying what he means:

    “Look, Planned Parenthood has done very good work for many, many — for millions of women,” Trump said in a news conference Tuesday night. “And I’ll say it, and I know a lot of the so-called conservatives, they say that’s really … cause I’m a conservative, but I’m a common-sense conservative.”

    Trump said he would not fund Planned Parenthood “as long as you have the abortion going on,” but noted the “millions of people — and I’ve had thousands of letters from women — that have been helped.”

    On the H1-B program:

    Moderator Megyn Kelly: “Mr. Trump, your campaign website to this day argues that more visas for highly skilled workers would, quote, ‘decimate’ American workers. However, at the CNBC debate, you spoke enthusiastically in favor of these visas. So, which is it?”

    Trump: “I’m changing. I’m changing. We need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can’t do it, we’ll get them in. But, and we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have. So, we do need highly skilled, and one of the biggest problems we have is people go to the best colleges. They’ll go to Harvard, they’ll go to Stanford, they’ll go to Wharton, as soon as they’re finished they’ll get shoved out. They want to stay in this country. They want to stay here desperately, they’re not able to stay here. For that purpose, we absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country.”

    But the next day his campaign released this statement:

    “Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.”

    See the pattern? Trump has it both ways. Whichever your position is, Trump agrees with you 100 percent. Typical, mealy-mouthed politician.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:50PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:50PM (#416125) Journal

    "See the pattern? Trump has it both ways. Whichever your position is, Trump agrees with you 100 percent. Typical, mealy-mouthed politician."

    Correct me, if I am mistaken here. I thought the subject of discussion was 'strongmen vs democrats'. Are you seriously attempting to pass Donald Trump off as a "strongman"? Tell me that you're just joking. I can't see any sarcasm font up there, but I know you're joking - just gotta be joking.

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:55PM (#416132)

      . Are you seriously attempting to pass Donald Trump off as a "strongman"? Tell me that you're just joking.

      No I'm not. His campaign is similar to those of the fascists of the 1930s. Immigrants, Jews, and the elites have betrayed our country and there will increasing disaster unless I'm elected and given sufficient power to turn things around. Then, we'll have a great country again.

      http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533 [politico.com]

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @02:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @02:42PM (#416151)

        Hell, just listen to his supporters at the rallies, its all about how strong he is and will be against ISIS, Gyna, etc.
        Mike Pence's favorite description of the guy is "broad-shouldered" [youtube.com][40 seconds].