38% say they feel proud to be Americans; lowest Gallup ever recorded
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The takeaway here shouldn't be "look how low we've sunk with the X people in power". It should be about how even in a democracy, less than half of the voting public is happy. It's similar to the fact that Congress as a whole has an abysmal approval rating, while each individual Congressperson has a high approval rating among their constituents.
We haven't DeTrumpified the nation yet... if he's not punished, then it was all just practice for next time.
[Edit] Oh... and the Republi-Cratic duopoly that infests Washington DC and exists mostly to suckle at the teat of lobbyists and the promise of future "consultant" gigs.
The whole experiment in government isn't looking to me like it's going to hold out much longer. I really hope I'm wrong. But we've got embedded growth obligations that haven't been addressed in our institutions.
Our infrastructure is nearing collapse. We've embarked on an insane project to turn all of our productive farmland into suburban sprawl, which in turn reduces the density of support infrastructure to the point where it can't possibly be maintained, dooming it to ever wider spread, and brown field inner cores.
[Edit2] Not to mention social media platforms - fracking our cultural fault lines, and commodifying the destruction of society.
Not very close at all. Unless you think American democracy is so fragile that a few dozen unarmed protesters that walked into an unlocked Capital building and caused a bit of mischief and vandalism is enough to overthrow the country.
This is prompting election-lie advocates to run for state-level election offices. We have impeccable supervisors of elections (both parties) who have received numerous death threats, for simply showing how election fraud allegations are false.
Florida has created an entire law enforcement agency to find election fraud where it doesn't exist.
All of this exists even after courts all over the country bench slapped every one of the bogus election lawsuits.
I submit that any implication that there wasn't meaningful harm done - or that widespread meaningful harm isn't ongoing - falls far short of the mark.
Are you glued to Fox News, lying to yourself, or just flat out being disingenuous?
The top brass of the military would not have supported a coup by Trump and the group that protested that day was not large enough to effect regime change.
I certainly am not confident in your claim. And if the military had stepped in to prevent a federal coup, I think America would have fragmented into several state coalitions. In all cases, the nation has been badly harmed by the rioters and the insurrectionists that led them. Indeed, we’ve yet to see whether the US remains a democracy: several states are doing all they can to dissuade and prevent citizens from voting, or gerrymandering the districts. It’s a knife’s edge now; the country could easily fall to authoritarianism.
This is a cancer on our Republic that will likely prove fatal.
We've had an _actual_ revolution where people actually fought and killed each other for years over the rules we wanted to live under. I'd say that was a real threat to the Democracy.
A bunch of retarded white Rambo wannabees changes nothing.
Don't worry, we'll get to vote again and again for years to come for same shitty unpopular candidates because they have the right color/letter next to their name.
"But none of the founders had the day Benjamin Franklin had. As the story was told and retold on the House floor, Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
With Trump we were mad and caught up in the daily circus, but with Biden the country just seems to be holding its collective breath until he’s gone. The administration just reeks of weakness and ineffectiveness. Take, for example, his proposal floated last week to suspend the federal gas tax - shot down before the initial reports had all been written.
The fall midterms aren’t going to help anything either.
Democrats seems to love to run the least charasmatic candidates they have lately. Republicans seems to be interested in the opposite.