Posted on 02/08/2021 10:21:19 AM PST by Olog-hai
Only a fragment of Americans believe democracy is thriving in the U.S., even as broad majorities agree that representative government is one of the country’s bedrock principles, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Just 16% of Americans say democracy is working well or extremely well, a pessimism that spans the political spectrum.
Nearly half of Americans, 45%, think democracy isn’t functioning properly, while another 38% say it’s working only somewhat well. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Well, since America is NOT a democracy, that makes sense.
These poll numbers will change once giving the wrong answer lands you in prison. It might be a year or two away. Then everyone will agree all is well in happy happy commie land.
So following what Woodrow Wilson once said, “(f)ew in US say socialism is working very well”, since Wilson once called socialism and democracy “one and the same”. If that be the case, it’s certainly a good thing; but of course, we have to look to our republican underpinnings and ask how they’re working.
Seeing as so many voted for democommunism.............
And in a communistic manner too.
The government no longer represents the people. It is an entity unto itself and
cares only for ever-increasing power and control over the citizens. Franklin said,
“a republic, if you can keep it”. We haven’t kept it.
On the contrary, Mob Rule is working Perfectly.
Dissociated Presstitutes
Excellent!
Let's see if we can find the word "Democracy" in the Pledge of Allegiance. No? Oh.....that's right....it's to the "REPUBLIC" for which it stands. Silly me........
I just love that dear old song....."The Battle Hymn of the Democracy"....don't you?
How 'bout the Constitution? Is it in there? No? Well....there you go..........It says...."A Republican form of Government!"
Especially now that we know from the Time magazine article the election was rigged by Big Tech and the Left.
Was it then a Democracy the framers created? Hardly. The system of restraints, on the face of it, was directed not only against individual tyrants, but also against a tyranny of the masses. The framers were well aware of the danger posed by self-seeking demagogues—that they might persuade a majority of the people to confer on government vast powers in return for deceptive promises of economic gain. And so they forbade such a transfer of power—first by declaring, in effect, that certain activities are outside the natural and legitimate scope of the public authority, and secondly by dispersing public authority among several levels and branches of government in the hope that each seat of authority, jealous of its own prerogatives, would have a natural incentive to resist aggression by the others.That’s from 1960. All the terms used by talk radio pundits are in there; it’s like time stood still from then and the left merely got more entrenched.
But the framers were not visionaries. They knew that rules of government, however brilliantly calculated to cope with the imperfect nature of man, however carefully designed to avoid the pitfalls of power, would be no match for men who were determined to disregard them. In the last analysis, their system of government would prosper only if the governed were sufficiently determined that it should. “What have you given us?” a woman asked Ben Franklin toward the close of the Constitutional Convention. “A Republic,” he said, “if you can keep it!”
We have not kept it. The (Dean) Achesons and (Arthur) Larsons have had their way. The system of restraints has fallen into disrepair. The federal government has moved into every field in which it believes its services are needed. The state governments are either excluded from their rightful functions by federal preemption, or they are allowed to act at the sufferance of the federal government. Inside the federal government, both the executive and judicial branches have roamed far outside their constitutional boundary lines. And all of these things have come to pass without regard to the amendment procedures prescribed by Article V. The result is a Leviathan, a vast national authority out of touch with the people, and out of their control. This monolith of power is bounded only by the will of those who sit in high places. …
— The Conscience of a Conservative, chapter 2
The 38% are those who think the election was not rigged.
Yea I could see that coming.
We are in for at least two years of blaming Trump to hide the move to Communism.
That’s because the Democrat Party morphed into the Revolutionary Communist Democrat Party.
When both parties were at least somewhat pro-American, pro-liberty, pro-Constitution, things worked somewhat ok.
There is no compromise with evil, it must be destroyed. They plan to enslave us all...if they can’t murder us all.
The majority of the people have just not woken to the reality of that yet or refuse to believe what the facts are telling them.
Remember, polls these days are meant to drive opinion rather than report it.
This is just an excuse for Biden’s puppet-masters to rule by executive order.
“Just sign it, Joe.”
considering the country is operating under a UniParty coup at the behest of the CCP...Flyover Country has pretty doggone well got the picture at this point
OTOH, illegitimate communist dictatorship and Stalinesque political oppression is flourishing in the US.
You mean the 38% REAL and TRUE Biden vote...
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