Losing American trust in elections, institutions and democracy.
According to a new poll, a majority of Americans believe that democracy in the United States is in danger of collapsing and that people are losing confidence in the US election.
A majority of Americans believe that democracy in the United States is in danger of collapsing, according to a new poll.
According to the Saturday edition of the New York Post, only 26 percent of those polled by the Schoen Cooperman Institute said that democracy in the United States is guaranteed for future generations, while 51 percent believe that democracy in the United States is in danger of extinction. has it.
The poll found that 49 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of Republicans agree that the republic is in danger. The poll also found widespread pessimism and mistrust in the United States, with only 54% of Americans believing Joe Biden to be the legitimate winner of the US presidential election.
Respondents in the survey also ranged in age from 18 to 29, with only 21 percent agreeing that democracy is safe in the United States.
“We find that Americans are losing their faith in democracy and, unfortunately, the situation is getting worse,” said one survey participant. They are losing confidence in elections, institutions and the ability of democracy to survive. Everything is negative.
A Canadian writer and university professor has also predicted that “American democracy” could collapse by 2025, creating political instability and widespread violence in the country.
“American democracy may collapse by 2025, creating severe political instability, including widespread domestic violence,” wrote Thomas Homer-Nixon, executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Rhodes University. Will bring. “By 2030, and perhaps sooner, the country may be ruled by a right-wing dictatorship.”
Nixon went on to point out that those who might find such an argument “ridiculous” noted that Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States provoked a similar reaction two years before it came to fruition.
“We should not dismiss these possibilities simply because they seem ridiculous or horrible to imagine,” he wrote. “In 2014, the possibility that Donald Trump would one day become president seemed ridiculous to everyone, but today we live in a world where ridiculous events take on the color of reality and horrible things become ordinary.”
Nixon noted that leading academics in the United States are now seriously considering the possibility of a deadly weakening of American democracy.
