yankel> adherence to ‘indexes’ and ‘scores’
this index is computed by international organizations for the whole world. It generally makes sense. It does not claim that China or Russia or Iran are democratic! If there is a possible bias, it will be anti-Israel especially in the last several years. I am not sure why it is “groupthink” to pay attention to a compilation of data. You seem to be rejecting it just because it exists.