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Is American Democracy Still Working? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/AskUSA@discuss.online
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If a nation reaches the point where millions of its citizens no longer trust the media, elections, courts, universities, police, science, or even each other, is it still one country or just 330 million people sharing the same borders?

We have pro AI vs anti AI

We have free speech vs police speech

We have pro 2A vs gun control

We have white supremacy vs multi-racial coalitions that can’t even agree on LGBT issues.

How are we as a society supposed to create standards to follow like in the past, when so many issues sharply divide us? One side has to win these elections, and one side is gonna go for it and implement their agenda that MILLIONS disagree with. Is that still a democracy? If Americans no longer believe the system is legitimate unless their side wins, has democracy already begun to fail?

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[–] 9 points 3 months ago

It never really did. We got lucky by not being in the old world during WW2 so our infrastructure was safe afterwards. That was the only time it was absolutely great to be a citizens. Its been riding on fumes since then, and before then we were riding on hopes and dreams as capitalists pilfered everything. If anything, we are just returning to the time of the rich fucking everyone openly and excitedly.

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